The Vitruvian

Harnessing Resilience: The Science Behind Wim Hof's Methods for Longevity and Well-Being

Wim Hof built his method from intuition and grief — then science proved it works. What cold and breath actually do to the body, and why voluntary discomfort is the most deliberate form of preparation.

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Wim Hof built a science-backed method out of intuition, grief, and cold water — and the research is catching up.

When Society Becomes the Sickness

The question behind Wim Hof's entire project is deceptively simple: what is the purpose of living? His answer — happiness, strength, and health — sounds almost plain until you realize how rare it is to hold all three at once. Most of us arrive at adulthood equipped with intelligence, ambition, and access, yet find ourselves depleted in the very dimensions that make life worth inhabiting. The three pillars are not aspirational; they are the baseline we have allowed modern life to erode.

Consumerism demands constant expenditure of energy without replenishment. Chronic stress floods the body with cortisol — a hormone that, sustained over time, degrades sleep, erodes focus, and strips away the mental clarity needed to question why we are living the way we are. The system, as Wim describes it, is not a conspiracy; it is simply a structure that sustains itself by keeping its participants too exhausted to imagine alternatives. Purpose, that deep motivating force stronger than thought, becomes inaccessible when energy is perpetually drained.

The cold I met because intuitively I felt the cold is able to bring down my thinking.

The antidote, when Wim first encountered it, was not a system. It was a feeling. Standing by a frozen Amsterdam canal at seventeen, he had no framework for what was happening — only an intuition that the cold could silence the overthinking mind, could pull him out of thought and into direct experience. That intuition preceded the science by decades. But intuition, however powerful, cannot reach a world that demands proof.

Science became the vehicle — not because Wim doubted the experience, but because he understood that a message nobody hears changes nothing. If the protocol could be validated in controlled trials, it could scale. It could reach the people who needed it most: those too consumed by their circumstances to slow down and feel what their bodies already know. That is the architecture of the method: inner truth made legible through evidence.

We live in a culture that has perfected the management of outer conditions while neglecting the inner ones. We have optimized away friction, discomfort, and uncertainty — and in doing so, we have unknowingly optimized away the very stimuli that build resilience. Stress, in the right dose, is not the enemy; it is the signal the body uses to grow stronger. But when stress becomes chronic and involuntary, it ceases to be a teacher and becomes a drain, siphoning the energy that should be flowing toward purpose.

Wim's mission, at its root, is not extreme athleticism. It is not the spectacle of an ice bath or a shirtless ascent of Everest. It is the recovery of something most people have quietly surrendered: the felt sense of being alive, uncorrupted by thought. The protocol is the path. The cold, the breath, the commitment to voluntary discomfort — these are not ends in themselves but instruments for arriving back at a self the world has been steadily obscuring.

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very soon you will be in the ice birth very soon you will be in the ice birth with me but I don't like the cold that's with me but I don't like the cold that's with me but I don't like the cold that's cool yeah oh gosh stay with your breath cool yeah oh gosh stay with your breath cool yeah oh gosh stay with your breath wh hop has defied logic time and time wh hop has defied logic time and time wh hop has defied logic time and time again he's able to withstand extreme again he's able to withstand extreme again he's able to withstand extreme cold and even ran to the top of Everest cold and even ran to the top of Everest cold and even ran to the top of Everest in his underwear he's proven we're all in his underwear he's proven we're all in his underwear he's proven we're all capable of pushing our minds and bodies capable of pushing our minds and bodies capable of pushing our minds and bodies way past what was thought possible they way past what was thought possible they way past what was thought possible they call me the ice man what is the purpose call me the ice man what is the purpose call me the ice man what is the purpose of living happiness strength and health of living happiness strength and health of living happiness strength and health you're rest is [ __ ] but this Society you're rest is [ __ ] but this Society you're rest is [ __ ] but this Society is sick and we cannot deal with stress is sick and we cannot deal with stress is sick and we cannot deal with stress it drains us but if we listen to our it drains us but if we listen to our it drains us but if we listen to our body we can change that through science body we can change that through science body we can change that through science so what is the first step breathing so what is the first step breathing so what is the first step breathing exercises it's about handling our exercises it's about handling our exercises it's about handling our emotion and feel that we are on top of emotion and feel that we are on top of emotion and feel that we are on top of it no matter what but we have never it no matter what but we have never it no matter what but we have never learned in our schooling how to do it learned in our schooling how to do it learned in our schooling how to do it next through the power of the mind we next through the power of the mind we next through the power of the mind we learn to make our bad feelings disease learn to make our bad feelings disease learn to make our bad feelings disease go away you were injected with eoli you

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go away you were injected with eoli you go away you were injected with eoli you had no negative immune response you took had no negative immune response you took had no negative immune response you took volunteers train them on your techniques volunteers train them on your techniques volunteers train them on your techniques and when they were injected their and when they were injected their and when they were injected their responses were similar to your own it's responses were similar to your own it's responses were similar to your own it's all possible how do you do that first we all possible how do you do that first we all possible how do you do that first we have have have to whim was there ever a time where the to whim was there ever a time where the to whim was there ever a time where the pain was even too much for you my wife pain was even too much for you my wife pain was even too much for you my wife took her own took her own took her own life life life and that led to depression and I was not and that led to depression and I was not and that led to depression and I was not able to do do able to do do able to do do [Music] [Music] [Music] anything there's so many people that are anything there's so many people that are anything there's so many people that are going through different forms of grief going through different forms of grief going through different forms of grief what would you say to those people the what would you say to those people the what would you say to those people the only way to break that is we've just hit 6 million subscribers is we've just hit 6 million subscribers on the dver co um so me and my team on the dver co um so me and my team on the dver co um so me and my team would like to do something we've never would like to do something we've never would like to do something we've never done before as little thank you and done before as little thank you and done before as little thank you and we're calling it The di of Co subscriber we're calling it The di of Co subscriber we're calling it The di of Co subscriber raffle and here is how it works every raffle and here is how it works every raffle and here is how it works every episode this month we're going to pick episode this month we're going to pick episode this month we're going to pick three current subscribers at random and three current subscribers at random and three current subscribers at random and we'll send one of you a 1,000 value

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consumerism consumerism through uh everyday very hectic through uh everyday very hectic through uh everyday very hectic stressful lives we get confused in it stressful lives we get confused in it stressful lives we get confused in it all we are depleted in our energy our all we are depleted in our energy our all we are depleted in our energy our energy is being drained through a system energy is being drained through a system energy is being drained through a system that is an inally being divided in its that is an inally being divided in its that is an inally being divided in its wealth and therefore people are not able wealth and therefore people are not able wealth and therefore people are not able uh to use their energy to bring up uh uh to use their energy to bring up uh uh to use their energy to bring up uh the the right values back in the family the the right values back in the family the the right values back in the family which is patience which is empathy which is patience which is empathy which is patience which is empathy creativity uh creativity uh creativity uh love composed by happiness strength and love composed by happiness strength and love composed by happiness strength and health so because there is confusion in health so because there is confusion in health so because there is confusion in that area that's why uh I I thought hey that area that's why uh I I thought hey that area that's why uh I I thought hey I'm going to start somewhere here and I'm going to start somewhere here and I'm going to start somewhere here and now I'm going to change the world and I now I'm going to change the world and I now I'm going to change the world and I see the wars I see unhappiness I see see the wars I see unhappiness I see see the wars I see unhappiness I see depression I see pollution I see abuse I

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depression I see pollution I see abuse I depression I see pollution I see abuse I see uh all that and people think that is see uh all that and people think that is see uh all that and people think that is normal and we have to abide to those uh normal and we have to abide to those uh normal and we have to abide to those uh realities and I think no it's sick and realities and I think no it's sick and realities and I think no it's sick and what I'm going to do about it I'm I'm what I'm going to do about it I'm I'm what I'm going to do about it I'm I'm going to start looking searching inside going to start looking searching inside going to start looking searching inside because I I I think every uh mother in because I I I think every uh mother in because I I I think every uh mother in the world should be able to bring the world should be able to bring the world should be able to bring happiness strength and health to their happiness strength and health to their happiness strength and health to their children and keep it there so that's my children and keep it there so that's my children and keep it there so that's my mission to bring it and because nobody's mission to bring it and because nobody's mission to bring it and because nobody's listening to a person like me saying listening to a person like me saying listening to a person like me saying that from the roof we got love is the that from the roof we got love is the that from the roof we got love is the power and all that that's why I go power and all that that's why I go power and all that that's why I go through science but first I went into through science but first I went into through science but first I went into the the the cold and the cold I met because cold and the cold I met because cold and the cold I met because intuitively I felt hey the cold is able intuitively I felt hey the cold is able intuitively I felt hey the cold is able to bring down my thinking what is it to bring down my thinking what is it to bring down my thinking what is it about the nature of society when you about the nature of society when you about the nature of society when you look out on Society at the moment that look out on Society at the moment that look out on Society at the moment that makes you sad or concerned what is it

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makes you sad or concerned what is it makes you sad or concerned what is it about the way we live way we've built about the way we live way we've built about the way we live way we've built this thing called Society so a society this thing called Society so a society this thing called Society so a society is a very is a very is a very complex uh uh complex uh uh complex uh uh opportunistic opportunistic opportunistic uh way uh through time nobody is able to uh way uh through time nobody is able to uh way uh through time nobody is able to trace down where the problems are how it trace down where the problems are how it trace down where the problems are how it has been Arisen it's too complex too has been Arisen it's too complex too has been Arisen it's too complex too confused now and there I I I say hey confused now and there I I I say hey confused now and there I I I say hey okay this look at The Establishment is okay this look at The Establishment is okay this look at The Establishment is this perfect is this paradise Noh is this perfect is this paradise Noh is this perfect is this paradise Noh is nothing wrong with our knowledge nothing wrong with our knowledge nothing wrong with our knowledge understanding and intelligence but the understanding and intelligence but the understanding and intelligence but the way we use it we have to change our way we use it we have to change our way we use it we have to change our Consciousness and our Consciousness is Consciousness and our Consciousness is Consciousness and our Consciousness is our way to perceive perceive is what we our way to perceive perceive is what we our way to perceive perceive is what we see and what we are able to deal with see and what we are able to deal with see and what we are able to deal with and we cannot deal with the stress and we cannot deal with the stress and we cannot deal with the stress coming in our lives it consumes us it coming in our lives it consumes us it coming in our lives it consumes us it drains us and there we are and and look

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drains us and there we are and and look drains us and there we are and and look what we can do we can go to the Moon we what we can do we can go to the Moon we what we can do we can go to the Moon we can go to Mars we can build Bridges we can go to Mars we can build Bridges we can go to Mars we can build Bridges we can make create AI all those things but can make create AI all those things but can make create AI all those things but we cannot create happiness strength and we cannot create happiness strength and we cannot create happiness strength and health we got to reset so let's health we got to reset so let's health we got to reset so let's stop massively in the world and Elevate stop massively in the world and Elevate stop massively in the world and Elevate our Consciousness to being good to each our Consciousness to being good to each our Consciousness to being good to each other not to be competitive if I if I'm other not to be competitive if I if I'm other not to be competitive if I if I'm an individual listening to this and I an individual listening to this and I an individual listening to this and I follow your methods what can you promise follow your methods what can you promise follow your methods what can you promise me will be the outcome on my daytoday me will be the outcome on my daytoday me will be the outcome on my daytoday life a lot more energy that's number one life a lot more energy that's number one life a lot more energy that's number one two you will feel just two you will feel just two you will feel just aive what is the purpose of living it's aive what is the purpose of living it's aive what is the purpose of living it's life to love life as it is pure no life to love life as it is pure no life to love life as it is pure no thoughts no confusion it's not there thoughts no confusion it's not there thoughts no confusion it's not there just feel alive when you uh rise from just feel alive when you uh rise from just feel alive when you uh rise from the bed you feel

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the bed you feel the bed you feel okay this is a new okay this is a new okay this is a new day what I'm going to do I'm going to day what I'm going to do I'm going to day what I'm going to do I'm going to change the world today because I feel so change the world today because I feel so change the world today because I feel so good and even though I'm not fully on good and even though I'm not fully on good and even though I'm not fully on right now I know it's coming and I want right now I know it's coming and I want right now I know it's coming and I want it I want it so much and you know what it I want it so much and you know what it I want it so much and you know what it's called it's called it's called purpose and that purpose I'm I'm living purpose and that purpose I'm I'm living purpose and that purpose I'm I'm living it and that purpose is stronger than my it and that purpose is stronger than my it and that purpose is stronger than my thinking and this Society is not driven thinking and this Society is not driven thinking and this Society is not driven to fulfill each and everyone's purpose to fulfill each and everyone's purpose to fulfill each and everyone's purpose it's to uh have the the the society it's to uh have the the the society it's to uh have the the the society maintained the system maintained maintained the system maintained maintained the system maintained controlled by a a couple of people all controlled by a a couple of people all controlled by a a couple of people all the energy for what where is the the energy for what where is the the energy for what where is the happiness where is the strength where is happiness where is the strength where is happiness where is the strength where is the health every day when I live my the health every day when I live my the health every day when I live my purpose and and I want to change the purpose and and I want to change the purpose and and I want to change the world I want to bring love and power and world I want to bring love and power and world I want to bring love and power and I'm doing

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I'm doing I'm doing with mathematical Precision with the with mathematical Precision with the with mathematical Precision with the mission impossible things they I found mission impossible things they I found mission impossible things they I found which I tested in uh scientific uh which I tested in uh scientific uh which I tested in uh scientific uh comparative studies showing that comparative studies showing that comparative studies showing that suddenly we have so much more control suddenly we have so much more control suddenly we have so much more control instead of being controlled by the instead of being controlled by the instead of being controlled by the system oppressing our purpose Our Lives system oppressing our purpose Our Lives system oppressing our purpose Our Lives energy and to connect with that purpose energy and to connect with that purpose energy and to connect with that purpose it's like love when you feel love for it's like love when you feel love for it's like love when you feel love for your woman for your love your sex this your woman for your love your sex this your woman for your love your sex this this you you don't think that is that this you you don't think that is that this you you don't think that is that power and that power you should be able power and that power you should be able power and that power you should be able to live and to feel for life itself to live and to feel for life itself to live and to feel for life itself every day but we are blocked too much every day but we are blocked too much every day but we are blocked too much going into the cold brings you out of going into the cold brings you out of going into the cold brings you out of this thinking this thinking this thinking brain it brings you directly into the brain it brings you directly into the brain it brings you directly into the deepest part of the brain because you deepest part of the brain because you deepest part of the brain because you are doing it going into the called then

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are doing it going into the called then are doing it going into the called then it it needs to be switched on the it it needs to be switched on the it it needs to be switched on the deepest part of the brain survival part deepest part of the brain survival part deepest part of the brain survival part the brain stem and uh to battle the the brain stem and uh to battle the the brain stem and uh to battle the danger of the cold but it's there once danger of the cold but it's there once danger of the cold but it's there once it's there and you are doing it you are it's there and you are doing it you are it's there and you are doing it you are connecting is that pardon what you're connecting is that pardon what you're connecting is that pardon what you're saying that the way that we live our saying that the way that we live our saying that the way that we live our lives is a little bit too comfortable so lives is a little bit too comfortable so lives is a little bit too comfortable so we're not reaching those sort of deeper we're not reaching those sort of deeper we're not reaching those sort of deeper levels of our of our brain we're kind of levels of our of our brain we're kind of levels of our of our brain we're kind of and we are optimizing discomfort out of and we are optimizing discomfort out of and we are optimizing discomfort out of our lives in every chance we get our lives in every chance we get our lives in every chance we get you from every you know I got here today you from every you know I got here today you from every you know I got here today in a nice warm car I arrived in a nice in a nice warm car I arrived in a nice in a nice warm car I arrived in a nice warm building I had a nice warm shower warm building I had a nice warm shower warm building I had a nice warm shower oh very soon you will be in the ice bath oh very soon you will be in the ice bath oh very soon you will be in the ice bath with me it's it's going to be nice you know me it's it's going to be nice you know it's going to be nice but that that that it's going to be nice but that that that it's going to be nice but that that that the the difference is we choose if we go the the difference is we choose if we go the the difference is we choose if we go to the cult and the cold will not come to the cult and the cold will not come to the cult and the cold will not come to us we tackle the problem before it to us we tackle the problem before it to us we tackle the problem before it arises within us with the cult which is

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arises within us with the cult which is arises within us with the cult which is a very uh negative aggressive power a very uh negative aggressive power a very uh negative aggressive power inflicted upon our bodies it's an impact inflicted upon our bodies it's an impact inflicted upon our bodies it's an impact when you say if we go to the cold before when you say if we go to the cold before when you say if we go to the cold before the cold comes to us is that a metaphor the cold comes to us is that a metaphor the cold comes to us is that a metaphor for life are you yes okay you mean we go for life are you yes okay you mean we go for life are you yes okay you mean we go we put ourselves in discomfort and if we we put ourselves in discomfort and if we we put ourselves in discomfort and if we don't then our lives will be met with don't then our lives will be met with don't then our lives will be met with discomfort in other way yes and then we discomfort in other way yes and then we discomfort in other way yes and then we are not prepared yeah right and that are not prepared yeah right and that are not prepared yeah right and that and a lot of people are maybe okay with and a lot of people are maybe okay with and a lot of people are maybe okay with this in this system but uh so many more this in this system but uh so many more this in this system but uh so many more people are not okay with this and for people are not okay with this and for people are not okay with this and for those we stand up we who have the wealth those we stand up we who have the wealth those we stand up we who have the wealth of being and feeling okay great that's of being and feeling okay great that's of being and feeling okay great that's wealth we should be able to stand up for wealth we should be able to stand up for wealth we should be able to stand up for those who cannot whim when did this those who cannot whim when did this those who cannot whim when did this start when did this start for you start when did this start for you start when did this start for you because a lot of people that I meet on because a lot of people that I meet on because a lot of people that I meet on this show you know their early Journeys this show you know their early Journeys this show you know their early Journeys or the sort of pivotal moments in their or the sort of pivotal moments in their or the sort of pivotal moments in their lives can be traced back to maybe when lives can be traced back to maybe when lives can be traced back to maybe when they were 12 or 13 but your journey

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they were 12 or 13 but your journey they were 12 or 13 but your journey starts even earlier the first Domino starts even earlier the first Domino starts even earlier the first Domino that fell seems to fall when your mother that fell seems to fall when your mother that fell seems to fall when your mother was giving birth to you oh yes was giving birth to you oh yes was giving birth to you oh yes subconsciously it started at my birth my subconsciously it started at my birth my subconsciously it started at my birth my mother told me I'm one of the twins mother told me I'm one of the twins mother told me I'm one of the twins unexpected back then we had no Echo unexpected back then we had no Echo unexpected back then we had no Echo graphics and all these tools so they graphics and all these tools so they graphics and all these tools so they didn't know that there was another twin didn't know that there was another twin didn't know that there was another twin baby there exactly and so I was almost baby there exactly and so I was almost baby there exactly and so I was almost uh born too late they discovered me uh born too late they discovered me uh born too late they discovered me almost too late almost too late almost too late and uh so I came out while they were and uh so I came out while they were and uh so I came out while they were pushing uh the bat with my mother to the pushing uh the bat with my mother to the pushing uh the bat with my mother to the operation room in the in in the hallway operation room in the in in the hallway operation room in the in in the hallway like purple because almost suffocated like purple because almost suffocated like purple because almost suffocated coming out in the cold of the hall very coming out in the cold of the hall very coming out in the cold of the hall very traumatized it started over there it traumatized it started over there it traumatized it started over there it started with a trauma and I let me tell started with a trauma and I let me tell started with a trauma and I let me tell you I was I became a Seeker because of you I was I became a Seeker because of you I was I became a Seeker because of that trauma people become Seekers if that trauma people become Seekers if that trauma people become Seekers if they have deep trauma they have deep trauma

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they have deep trauma they always will seek uh compensation they always will seek uh compensation they always will seek uh compensation always try to seek relief in one way or always try to seek relief in one way or always try to seek relief in one way or in another not directly to the trauma in another not directly to the trauma in another not directly to the trauma but indirectly bypassing and they don't but indirectly bypassing and they don't but indirectly bypassing and they don't know it influences directly deeply your know it influences directly deeply your know it influences directly deeply your behavior in life just want to make sure behavior in life just want to make sure behavior in life just want to make sure I'm super clear on this your mother had I'm super clear on this your mother had I'm super clear on this your mother had two identical twin boys and the doctor's two identical twin boys and the doctor's two identical twin boys and the doctor's own only knew that one baby was there so own only knew that one baby was there so own only knew that one baby was there so when they finished delivering um your when they finished delivering um your when they finished delivering um your brother your identical twin brother they brother your identical twin brother they brother your identical twin brother they were moving on with the procedure and were moving on with the procedure and were moving on with the procedure and then at the last minute while they were then at the last minute while they were then at the last minute while they were in the hallway they discovered there was in the hallway they discovered there was in the hallway they discovered there was another baby in there and that other another baby in there and that other another baby in there and that other baby yourself was at risk and from that baby yourself was at risk and from that baby yourself was at risk and from that whole sort of traumatic experience you whole sort of traumatic experience you whole sort of traumatic experience you feel that that sort of embodied a trauma feel that that sort of embodied a trauma feel that that sort of embodied a trauma which you've which turned you into a which you've which turned you into a which you've which turned you into a Seeker looking for answers on the Seeker looking for answers on the Seeker looking for answers on the universe rejecting the conventional universe rejecting the conventional universe rejecting the conventional thinking and that takes us all the way thinking and that takes us all the way thinking and that takes us all the way through this sort of um very curious

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through this sort of um very curious through this sort of um very curious childhood up to the point you describe childhood up to the point you describe childhood up to the point you describe at 17 years old where you're stood in at 17 years old where you're stood in at 17 years old where you're stood in Amsterdam by a very very cold lake and Amsterdam by a very very cold lake and Amsterdam by a very very cold lake and you feel cold to jump into that Lake yes you feel cold to jump into that Lake yes you feel cold to jump into that Lake yes yes uh cold and C there are no words to yes uh cold and C there are no words to yes uh cold and C there are no words to describe it because you are led by describe it because you are led by describe it because you are led by intuition you are led by a way the the intuition you are led by a way the the intuition you are led by a way the the body is able to solve whatever is inside body is able to solve whatever is inside body is able to solve whatever is inside because you cannot relate by thinking because you cannot relate by thinking because you cannot relate by thinking what is going on because I was a baby what is going on because I was a baby what is going on because I was a baby back then but it always blocked me it back then but it always blocked me it back then but it always blocked me it made me a seeker and uh at that moment made me a seeker and uh at that moment made me a seeker and uh at that moment when I went in I just follow to when I went in I just follow to when I went in I just follow to intuition it's a feeling and there I intuition it's a feeling and there I intuition it's a feeling and there I felt this is it this is it what I've felt this is it this is it what I've felt this is it this is it what I've always been trying to find as a Seeker always been trying to find as a Seeker always been trying to find as a Seeker my intuition had led me to ER uh go into my intuition had led me to ER uh go into my intuition had led me to ER uh go into that water to meet my trauma and that is that water to meet my trauma and that is that water to meet my trauma and that is activating a activating a activating a innate capacity of ours to deal and to

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innate capacity of ours to deal and to innate capacity of ours to deal and to process whatever is going on in the process whatever is going on in the process whatever is going on in the deepest of the brain in the deepest deepest of the brain in the deepest deepest of the brain in the deepest thought up uh tissue where is trauma uh thought up uh tissue where is trauma uh thought up uh tissue where is trauma uh present which we haven't learned how to present which we haven't learned how to present which we haven't learned how to access that first time you got in the access that first time you got in the access that first time you got in the cold water yeah did you react like I react water yeah did you react like I react when I get in the cold water now did you when I get in the cold water now did you when I get in the cold water now did you were you h no absolutely not I was were you h no absolutely not I was were you h no absolutely not I was surprising and you will go with me later surprising and you will go with me later surprising and you will go with me later and you will not go the way you just and you will not go the way you just and you will not go the way you just expressed okay we will go like you will expressed okay we will go like you will expressed okay we will go like you will smile beautifully like you do right now smile beautifully like you do right now smile beautifully like you do right now yeah and go with me in there is a moment yeah and go with me in there is a moment yeah and go with me in there is a moment that you will feel a little bit that you will feel a little bit that you will feel a little bit of but I'm there we are there you're my of but I'm there we are there you're my of but I'm there we are there you're my brother you you I'm your uncle I'm your brother you you I'm your uncle I'm your brother you you I'm your uncle I'm your family I want you to feel good I I want family I want you to feel good I I want family I want you to feel good I I want you I I I I'm here to make you strong you I I I I'm here to make you strong you I I I I'm here to make you strong strong strong it it it means to stay in

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strong strong it it it means to stay in strong strong it it it means to stay in the eye of the hurricane when it is when the eye of the hurricane when it is when the eye of the hurricane when it is when the stress is most when you first got the stress is most when you first got the stress is most when you first got into the cold water you said it seemed into the cold water you said it seemed into the cold water you said it seemed to answer a lot of your spiritual to answer a lot of your spiritual to answer a lot of your spiritual questions yeah oh yeah all what what questions yeah oh yeah all what what questions yeah oh yeah all what what spiritual questions did getting in the spiritual questions did getting in the spiritual questions did getting in the Cold War to that first time answer all Cold War to that first time answer all Cold War to that first time answer all what all what has been propagated by all what all what has been propagated by all what all what has been propagated by all the religions all the Asic disciplines the religions all the Asic disciplines the religions all the Asic disciplines and doctrines that Nirvana and and doctrines that Nirvana and and doctrines that Nirvana and Enlightenment key Enlightenment key Enlightenment key pra uh whatever they call it uh in name pra uh whatever they call it uh in name pra uh whatever they call it uh in name uh that that is just our uh that that is just our uh that that is just our mind let's feel strong let's be strong mind let's feel strong let's be strong mind let's feel strong let's be strong let's be healthy let's be happy just let's be healthy let's be happy just let's be healthy let's be happy just unconditionally that's what I felt at unconditionally that's what I felt at unconditionally that's what I felt at that moment this is it and it was not that moment this is it and it was not that moment this is it and it was not words that came to me it was a pure words that came to me it was a pure words that came to me it was a pure opening of my feeling being un corrupted opening of my feeling being un corrupted opening of my feeling being un corrupted by

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by by thinking for many many years you lived thinking for many many years you lived thinking for many many years you lived as a squatter was it from 17 to sort of as a squatter was it from 17 to sort of as a squatter was it from 17 to sort of 20 sort of mid 20s that you lived as a 20 sort of mid 20s that you lived as a 20 sort of mid 20s that you lived as a squatter 0s you were you best time of my squatter 0s you were you best time of my squatter 0s you were you best time of my life having no money whatsoever I was in life having no money whatsoever I was in life having no money whatsoever I was in society living outside of society society living outside of society society living outside of society outside I had no money I lived off the outside I had no money I lived off the outside I had no money I lived off the scraps of the uh the scraps of the uh the scraps of the uh the marketplace and I loved it was a party marketplace and I loved it was a party marketplace and I loved it was a party time was Feast every day with all these time was Feast every day with all these time was Feast every day with all these other people who are free thinkers do other people who are free thinkers do other people who are free thinkers do don't think a time have a have a don't think a time have a have a don't think a time have a have a sabatical a a a sabatical of this way sabatical a a a sabatical of this way sabatical a a a sabatical of this way the system maintains itself through the system maintains itself through the system maintains itself through Paradigm through a certain way of Paradigm through a certain way of Paradigm through a certain way of thinking if you just leave it at time thinking if you just leave it at time thinking if you just leave it at time you start to think uh thoughts and you start to think uh thoughts and you start to think uh thoughts and emotions are able to emerge without emotions are able to emerge without emotions are able to emerge without without this helmet on this heavy helmet

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without this helmet on this heavy helmet without this helmet on this heavy helmet which is interrupting your flow your which is interrupting your flow your which is interrupting your flow your being your expression and then you you being your expression and then you you being your expression and then you you cannot trust that expression you are cannot trust that expression you are cannot trust that expression you are lost you're getting lost of who who you lost you're getting lost of who who you lost you're getting lost of who who you are there I was able to are there I was able to are there I was able to freethink without even thinking about it freethink without even thinking about it freethink without even thinking about it I played the guitar and the I played the guitar and the I played the guitar and the hallways hallways hallways uh I did yoga all these postes in the in uh I did yoga all these postes in the in uh I did yoga all these postes in the in the courtyards the courtyards the courtyards naked naked naked and in the winter time I became so and in the winter time I became so and in the winter time I became so strong if you only let the life force strong if you only let the life force strong if you only let the life force Express itself you become so strong what Express itself you become so strong what Express itself you become so strong what is the life force for anybody that is the life force for anybody that is the life force for anybody that doesn't know anybody has it yeah like doesn't know anybody has it yeah like doesn't know anybody has it yeah like here and right now if I like I was here and right now if I like I was here and right now if I like I was talking be before we entered into this talking be before we entered into this talking be before we entered into this podcast 76 years old this man was and he podcast 76 years old this man was and he podcast 76 years old this man was and he was suffering uffing from Li limes

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was suffering uffing from Li limes was suffering uffing from Li limes disease and he wanted to climb to disease and he wanted to climb to disease and he wanted to climb to kilamanjaro in record time without kilamanjaro in record time without kilamanjaro in record time without having any experience in in climbing 76 having any experience in in climbing 76 having any experience in in climbing 76 years old limes disease suffering with years old limes disease suffering with years old limes disease suffering with that condition doing a mountain which that condition doing a mountain which that condition doing a mountain which normally is done between five and nine normally is done between five and nine normally is done between five and nine days fully dressed because up there at days fully dressed because up there at days fully dressed because up there at 6,000 m is really cold and there is less 6,000 m is really cold and there is less 6,000 m is really cold and there is less than half the oxygen so the cold comes than half the oxygen so the cold comes than half the oxygen so the cold comes even harder in and there I saw life even harder in and there I saw life even harder in and there I saw life force uh his life force was so force uh his life force was so force uh his life force was so determined to climb with me an determined to climb with me an determined to climb with me an impossible physiologically impossible impossible physiologically impossible impossible physiologically impossible task because normally between 5 to n task because normally between 5 to n task because normally between 5 to n days he did it a 31 hours 76 years old days he did it a 31 hours 76 years old days he did it a 31 hours 76 years old what what else is that than a life force what what else is that than a life force what what else is that than a life force you never expected it to be just to take you never expected it to be just to take you never expected it to be just to take on the challenge he had a deeper feeling on the challenge he had a deeper feeling on the challenge he had a deeper feeling within himself I don't know what I got

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within himself I don't know what I got within himself I don't know what I got to do but this guy is saying he wants to to do but this guy is saying he wants to to do but this guy is saying he wants to climb to Kilimanjaro past the climb to Kilimanjaro past the climb to Kilimanjaro past the physiological limits according to physiological limits according to physiological limits according to science and it I feel I feel something science and it I feel I feel something science and it I feel I feel something that is your life force talking to you that is your life force talking to you that is your life force talking to you which wants to free itself he was which wants to free itself he was which wants to free itself he was suffering from limes disease he was in a suffering from limes disease he was in a suffering from limes disease he was in a system always abiding to everything and system always abiding to everything and system always abiding to everything and suddenly with an autoimmune disorder he suddenly with an autoimmune disorder he suddenly with an autoimmune disorder he could not control at all could not control at all could not control at all and and there he was so he he felt the and and there he was so he he felt the and and there he was so he he felt the same thing as I felt when I was 17 going same thing as I felt when I was 17 going same thing as I felt when I was 17 going into the CT he came with me and he into the CT he came with me and he into the CT he came with me and he climbed to kilaru in 31 hours not 5 to n climbed to kilaru in 31 hours not 5 to n climbed to kilaru in 31 hours not 5 to n days 31 hours days 31 hours days 31 hours so that is the life force our life force so that is the life force our life force so that is the life force our life force is capable of so much more than we are is capable of so much more than we are is capable of so much more than we are used to why don't we know that why don't used to why don't we know that why don't used to why don't we know that why don't we believe that why don't we live our we believe that why don't we live our we believe that why don't we live our lives with the you know the the opinion

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lives with the you know the the opinion lives with the you know the the opinion that we can climb the mountain sure that we can climb the mountain sure that we can climb the mountain sure because we are let to believe we have to because we are let to believe we have to because we are let to believe we have to serve into systems that are not serve into systems that are not serve into systems that are not necessarily serving our necessarily serving our necessarily serving our soul and they so massively soul and they so massively soul and they so massively psychologically overwhelming the system psychologically overwhelming the system psychologically overwhelming the system the schooling system Etc it's so the schooling system Etc it's so the schooling system Etc it's so overwhelming that we have no way to overwhelming that we have no way to overwhelming that we have no way to escape from this narrowing Consciousness escape from this narrowing Consciousness escape from this narrowing Consciousness where we got in we think careers make us where we got in we think careers make us where we got in we think careers make us happy cars make us happy money makes us happy cars make us happy money makes us happy cars make us happy money makes us happy Fame and name and all makes us happy Fame and name and all makes us happy Fame and name and all makes us happy I was the happiest guy when I was happy I was the happiest guy when I was happy I was the happiest guy when I was in the squat having nothing you were you in the squat having nothing you were you in the squat having nothing you were you were effectively homeless living just were effectively homeless living just were effectively homeless living just outside yeah yeah yeah a squat is a outside yeah yeah yeah a squat is a outside yeah yeah yeah a squat is a place where you have a uh you have place where you have a uh you have place where you have a uh you have electricity and that's it and you got to electricity and that's it and you got to electricity and that's it and you got to pay for the the heater so you had to pay for the the heater so you had to pay for the the heater so you had to find find ways to uh uh pay say um what

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find find ways to uh uh pay say um what find find ways to uh uh pay say um what is it £70 a month and you were living is it £70 a month and you were living is it £70 a month and you were living with lots of people in yeah when when with lots of people in yeah when when with lots of people in yeah when when you were squatting yeah wow was an you were squatting yeah wow was an you were squatting yeah wow was an amazing I mean we don't need so much but amazing I mean we don't need so much but amazing I mean we don't need so much but it has been propagated that we need a it has been propagated that we need a it has been propagated that we need a house everybody needs a house everybody needs a house everybody needs a mortgage and you got to serve that mortgage and you got to serve that mortgage and you got to serve that mortgage you got to go to 9 to5 and we mortgage you got to go to 9 to5 and we mortgage you got to go to 9 to5 and we become slaves and slaves of a system become slaves and slaves of a system become slaves and slaves of a system that is that is that is in the end creating quite some stress in the end creating quite some stress in the end creating quite some stress and we are only able to survive not to and we are only able to survive not to and we are only able to survive not to express ourselves creatively as who we express ourselves creatively as who we express ourselves creatively as who we are and what we are for real what's a are and what we are for real what's a are and what we are for real what's a realistic alternative whim I lived in realistic alternative whim I lived in realistic alternative whim I lived in that Society first I lived outside that Society first I lived outside that Society first I lived outside through living in a squat that was through living in a squat that was through living in a squat that was enough for me to have my own identity enough for me to have my own identity enough for me to have my own identity connected in my thinking my mind and uh connected in my thinking my mind and uh connected in my thinking my mind and uh then I went into society it was a then I went into society it was a then I went into society it was a horrible time time because suddenly I

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horrible time time because suddenly I horrible time time because suddenly I had to live in a flat with the kids and had to live in a flat with the kids and had to live in a flat with the kids and my wife deteriorated mentally and she my wife deteriorated mentally and she my wife deteriorated mentally and she took her own life in 95 and she jumped took her own life in 95 and she jumped took her own life in 95 and she jumped from eight stories down that that that from eight stories down that that that from eight stories down that that that was was was the the life I was in and the and the the life I was in and the and the the life I was in and the and Society just go keeps on going like a Society just go keeps on going like a Society just go keeps on going like a train it it has no emotion it has no train it it has no emotion it has no train it it has no emotion it has no feeling wh on that you're 22 years old feeling wh on that you're 22 years old feeling wh on that you're 22 years old you're you fall in love yes with a woman you're you fall in love yes with a woman you're you fall in love yes with a woman you describe as the love of your life oh you describe as the love of your life oh you describe as the love of your life oh that's her yes o oh look at that's her yes o oh look at that's her yes o oh look at this oh yeah this oh yeah this oh yeah sweetheart amazing Soul very expressive sweetheart amazing Soul very expressive sweetheart amazing Soul very expressive very talkative to everybody very open very talkative to everybody very open very talkative to everybody very open and uh and then into the shadows of her and uh and then into the shadows of her and uh and then into the shadows of her own mind and dysfunctioning of brain own mind and dysfunctioning of brain own mind and dysfunctioning of brain functioning and uh that led to uh her functioning and uh that led to uh her functioning and uh that led to uh her depression and then becoming Manic and

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depression and then becoming Manic and depression and then becoming Manic and then then then schizophrenia then uh worse got worse schizophrenia then uh worse got worse schizophrenia then uh worse got worse and worse and worse we were 15 years and worse and worse we were 15 years and worse and worse we were 15 years together you met her in that squat house together you met her in that squat house together you met her in that squat house in the squat house yes yeah amazing yeah in the squat house yes yeah amazing yeah in the squat house yes yeah amazing yeah so innocent all very innocent and uh uh so innocent all very innocent and uh uh so innocent all very innocent and uh uh I called her a butterfly Mariposa in I called her a butterfly Mariposa in I called her a butterfly Mariposa in Spanish and uh butterfly because she was Spanish and uh butterfly because she was Spanish and uh butterfly because she was everywhere a very light everywhere a very light everywhere a very light being did I fell in love or Rose in love being did I fell in love or Rose in love being did I fell in love or Rose in love I think the last I think the last I think the last one only the the way her mind got one only the the way her mind got one only the the way her mind got Disturbed through this yeah is it Disturbed through this yeah is it Disturbed through this yeah is it Society is it the pressure is it a Society is it the pressure is it a Society is it the pressure is it a career is it what is it a demand because career is it what is it a demand because career is it what is it a demand because this was a light a being of light you this was a light a being of light you this was a light a being of light you you met her in that squatter house you you met her in that squatter house you you met her in that squatter house you had two children together yes in the

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had two children together yes in the had two children together yes in the squat and perfectly okay and great and squat and perfectly okay and great and squat and perfectly okay and great and great we yeah beautiful the those great we yeah beautiful the those great we yeah beautiful the those children are right now working with me children are right now working with me children are right now working with me we got an international worldwide we got an international worldwide we got an international worldwide company yeah when did you realize that company yeah when did you realize that company yeah when did you realize that her mental health was deteriorating yeah probably too late uh deteriorating yeah probably too late uh uh uh it was a a a a decreasing kind of uh uh it was a a a a decreasing kind of uh uh it was a a a a decreasing kind of uh uh process in her where she was uh uh process in her where she was uh uh process in her where she was losing the control and uh uh I had no losing the control and uh uh I had no losing the control and uh uh I had no real means to take care of that she went real means to take care of that she went real means to take care of that she went back uh to uh pmon she was Spanish from back uh to uh pmon she was Spanish from back uh to uh pmon she was Spanish from origin and uh she was there with her origin and uh she was there with her origin and uh she was there with her family she would have been for months on family she would have been for months on family she would have been for months on end with her family and then come back end with her family and then come back end with her family and then come back and being mother for two days and being mother for two days and being mother for two days and then suddenly collapse and being bad

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and then suddenly collapse and being bad and then suddenly collapse and being bad and being very down again and uh yeah and being very down again and uh yeah and being very down again and uh yeah like a burden burdensome but we loved like a burden burdensome but we loved like a burden burdensome but we loved her of her of her of course we are trying to course we are trying to course we are trying to survive where and uh only after the uh survive where and uh only after the uh survive where and uh only after the uh the fourth child you wanted another CH the fourth child you wanted another CH the fourth child you wanted another CH but I said no you have to become better but I said no you have to become better but I said no you have to become better you have to become healthy and and she you have to become healthy and and she you have to become healthy and and she said to you you are a bastard that was said to you you are a bastard that was said to you you are a bastard that was one month before she took her own life one month before she took her own life one month before she took her own life see uh she kissed her I was working as a see uh she kissed her I was working as a see uh she kissed her I was working as a mountain guide in the Pines to get some mountain guide in the Pines to get some mountain guide in the Pines to get some money and I also loved it I love nature money and I also loved it I love nature money and I also loved it I love nature but then uh uh yeah she kissed her uh but then uh uh yeah she kissed her uh but then uh uh yeah she kissed her uh the kids could the kids could the kids could bu before uh jumping down or letting go bu before uh jumping down or letting go bu before uh jumping down or letting go from 8 from 8 from 8 uh story she jumped off an eighth story

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uh story she jumped off an eighth story uh story she jumped off an eighth story building yes I mean it almost takes a building yes I mean it almost takes a building yes I mean it almost takes a lot of courage to do that too you must lot of courage to do that too you must lot of courage to do that too you must be very Des desperate if you do a thing be very Des desperate if you do a thing be very Des desperate if you do a thing like that and that is something un like that and that is something un like that and that is something un overcomable the part of me when I was 12 overcomable the part of me when I was 12 overcomable the part of me when I was 12 the world is sick depressed the darkness the world is sick depressed the darkness the world is sick depressed the darkness the wars the pollution Etc all that I'm the wars the pollution Etc all that I'm the wars the pollution Etc all that I'm going to do something about it at that going to do something about it at that going to do something about it at that moment I could not I was not able to do moment I could not I was not able to do moment I could not I was not able to do anything so it it turned into a defeat anything so it it turned into a defeat anything so it it turned into a defeat it turned into being me hopeless it it turned into being me hopeless it it turned into being me hopeless it turned me into being depressed but I had turned me into being depressed but I had turned me into being depressed but I had no time to be depressed I had to take no time to be depressed I had to take no time to be depressed I had to take care of four care of four care of four children on your own on my own with children on your own on my own with children on your own on my own with almost no almost no almost no money so uh that's that's a actually money so uh that's that's a actually money so uh that's that's a actually where the cult came in not like a where the cult came in not like a where the cult came in not like a negative power power it the cold is

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negative power power it the cold is negative power power it the cold is stronger than your mind it than your stronger than your mind it than your stronger than your mind it than your thinking it makes you the depth of your thinking it makes you the depth of your thinking it makes you the depth of your brain at work and the depth of your brain at work and the depth of your brain at work and the depth of your brain is the place the pharmacy it's the brain is the place the pharmacy it's the brain is the place the pharmacy it's the pharmacy the Healer of our uh being pharmacy the Healer of our uh being pharmacy the Healer of our uh being which we disconnected from so much which we disconnected from so much which we disconnected from so much because we go we go for pills medicines because we go we go for pills medicines because we go we go for pills medicines or go to doctor if something happens to or go to doctor if something happens to or go to doctor if something happens to us we don't go to ourselves I can't us we don't go to ourselves I can't us we don't go to ourselves I can't imagine the pain I can't imagine the imagine the pain I can't imagine the imagine the pain I can't imagine the pain of you know having the love of my pain of you know having the love of my pain of you know having the love of my life um a deteriorate um have four kids life um a deteriorate um have four kids life um a deteriorate um have four kids with me but then take her own with me but then take her own with me but then take her own life life grief oh yes the grief had no space yes grief oh yes the grief had no space yes grief oh yes the grief had no space yes the agonizing thinking all day long has the agonizing thinking all day long has the agonizing thinking all day long has its way to uh to burden a person a me its way to uh to burden a person a me its way to uh to burden a person a me and uh uh uh yeah the only way to break

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and uh uh uh yeah the only way to break and uh uh uh yeah the only way to break that was going into uh icy that was going into uh icy that was going into uh icy water uh that was yeah I mean at that water uh that was yeah I mean at that water uh that was yeah I mean at that moment you're just moment you're just moment you're just surviving and that gives you a little surviving and that gives you a little surviving and that gives you a little little opening of this agonizing little opening of this agonizing little opening of this agonizing thinking this it's painful it's a a and thinking this it's painful it's a a and thinking this it's painful it's a a and at that moment you are so overwhelmed by at that moment you are so overwhelmed by at that moment you are so overwhelmed by all that that you all that that you all that that you now I can talk about it but back then I now I can talk about it but back then I now I can talk about it but back then I was in the middle of it do you remember was in the middle of it do you remember was in the middle of it do you remember where you were where you were when you where you were where you were when you where you were where you were when you got that phone got that phone got that phone call yes call yes call yes uh exactly and U I was doing groups of uh exactly and U I was doing groups of uh exactly and U I was doing groups of people uh in the in the mountains so people uh in the in the mountains so people uh in the in the mountains so back then you had these phone booths back then you had these phone booths back then you had these phone booths yeah in on the camping on the camping yeah in on the camping on the camping yeah in on the camping on the camping where we uh slept and uh with the group where we uh slept and uh with the group where we uh slept and uh with the group and uh there I got uh this phone call uh

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and uh there I got uh this phone call uh and uh there I got uh this phone call uh the of her brother calling me and uh the of her brother calling me and uh the of her brother calling me and uh yeah so it is uh not only shocking you yeah so it is uh not only shocking you yeah so it is uh not only shocking you don't know what to don't know what to don't know what to say you cannot even say you cannot even say you cannot even cry the grief comes later the thinking cry the grief comes later the thinking cry the grief comes later the thinking about it the being able to contemplate about it the being able to contemplate about it the being able to contemplate about it and have feelings about it about it and have feelings about it about it and have feelings about it comes only later I cried when I was with comes only later I cried when I was with comes only later I cried when I was with her her her father with with her father over her father with with her father over her father with with her father over her dead body then we cried together that dead body then we cried together that dead body then we cried together that then you can relate You Can Let Go it then you can relate You Can Let Go it then you can relate You Can Let Go it happens you're not thinking about it it happens you're not thinking about it it happens you're not thinking about it it happens so that's the way happens so that's the way happens so that's the way it evolves and then but in the back of it evolves and then but in the back of it evolves and then but in the back of my head was was of course my four my head was was of course my four my head was was of course my four children it took a burden on us it took children it took a burden on us it took children it took a burden on us it took a burden on an a burden on an a burden on an inexplicable burden inexplicable burden inexplicable burden it changed us it traumatized Us in the

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it changed us it traumatized Us in the it changed us it traumatized Us in the depth and that made us uh separate at a depth and that made us uh separate at a depth and that made us uh separate at a certain certain certain moment later on in life now we are all moment later on in life now we are all moment later on in life now we are all together and it's amazing the chemistry together and it's amazing the chemistry together and it's amazing the chemistry is better than ever before and uh she is better than ever before and uh she is better than ever before and uh she her the mother she is like in a an angel her the mother she is like in a an angel her the mother she is like in a an angel now she's looking over our shoulders and now she's looking over our shoulders and now she's looking over our shoulders and we talk about it we say she yeah she we talk about it we say she yeah she we talk about it we say she yeah she that it is going so well with us is that it is going so well with us is that it is going so well with us is because she is that back she she is with because she is that back she she is with because she is that back she she is with us we feel it when you had that us we feel it when you had that us we feel it when you had that conversation with your four children conversation with your four children conversation with your four children that their mother was gone they were that their mother was gone they were that their mother was gone they were between seven and 12 years old yes how between seven and 12 years old yes how between seven and 12 years old yes how how do how do you have a conversation how do how do you have a conversation how do how do you have a conversation with a seven-year-old or or a 12year old with a seven-year-old or or a 12year old with a seven-year-old or or a 12year old about their mother not being here about their mother not being here about their mother not being here anymore exactly that that way I said she anymore exactly that that way I said she anymore exactly that that way I said she is she is

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is she is is she is gone her body is gone she she I didn't gone her body is gone she she I didn't gone her body is gone she she I didn't say she was say she was say she was dead she is not no longer with us that's dead she is not no longer with us that's dead she is not no longer with us that's what I what I what I said and they got it we are here we are said and they got it we are here we are said and they got it we are here we are together we're going to we're going to together we're going to we're going to together we're going to we're going to find life with us mommy is gone yet also find life with us mommy is gone yet also find life with us mommy is gone yet also she is here and here and worked it worked I mean we went on did worked it worked I mean we went on did worked it worked I mean we went on did they ask questions of course of course many questions of course of course many questions but uh the end uh the the the questions but uh the end uh the the the questions but uh the end uh the the the questions uh were not as strong as our questions uh were not as strong as our questions uh were not as strong as our being being being during in life being together uh it's during in life being together uh it's during in life being together uh it's there where I found the cold to give me

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there where I found the cold to give me there where I found the cold to give me all the energy to create a good all the energy to create a good all the energy to create a good atmosphere to at home the nest atmosphere to at home the nest atmosphere to at home the nest warmth warmth warmth playfulness being there light not playfulness being there light not playfulness being there light not heavy what is that first step to because heavy what is that first step to because heavy what is that first step to because there's so many people that are going there's so many people that are going there's so many people that are going through different forms of grief or they through different forms of grief or they through different forms of grief or they have that trauma that you've describe have that trauma that you've describe have that trauma that you've describe that goes back a long way if they're that goes back a long way if they're that goes back a long way if they're listening to this now and they've listening to this now and they've listening to this now and they've stumbled this far into the conversation stumbled this far into the conversation stumbled this far into the conversation and they're thinking I'm so far away and they're thinking I'm so far away and they're thinking I'm so far away from that whim I'm So Far Away I've got from that whim I'm So Far Away I've got from that whim I'm So Far Away I've got my shirt and tie on I've got I'm in the my shirt and tie on I've got I'm in the my shirt and tie on I've got I'm in the city I I know I'm unhappy I can feel it city I I know I'm unhappy I can feel it city I I know I'm unhappy I can feel it in my bones but I know no other way what in my bones but I know no other way what in my bones but I know no other way what is the first step absolutely the is the first step absolutely the is the first step absolutely the breathing breathing breathing exercises these breathing exercises in exercises these breathing exercises in exercises these breathing exercises in 2014 were capable to show just like 2014 were capable to show just like 2014 were capable to show just like scientifically uh hormonally uh looking scientifically uh hormonally uh looking scientifically uh hormonally uh looking at the nervous system the depth at the nervous system the depth at the nervous system the depth uh which we entered with these breathing

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uh which we entered with these breathing uh which we entered with these breathing exercises in this comparative study exercises in this comparative study exercises in this comparative study showed that we were able to tap into the showed that we were able to tap into the showed that we were able to tap into the autonomic nervous system and innate autonomic nervous system and innate autonomic nervous system and innate immune system which was considered to be immune system which was considered to be immune system which was considered to be impossible in signs and now it is there impossible in signs and now it is there impossible in signs and now it is there it's not only the autonomic nervous it's not only the autonomic nervous it's not only the autonomic nervous system and the innate immune system it's system and the innate immune system it's system and the innate immune system it's also the ability naturally to solve what also the ability naturally to solve what also the ability naturally to solve what is deeply is deeply is deeply stored up in our tissue which could not stored up in our tissue which could not stored up in our tissue which could not be processed in the moment when it be processed in the moment when it be processed in the moment when it happened trauma whim I've got some of happened trauma whim I've got some of happened trauma whim I've got some of those studies in front of me I read those studies in front of me I read those studies in front of me I read through all of them um ahead of our through all of them um ahead of our through all of them um ahead of our conversation and they are quite frankly conversation and they are quite frankly conversation and they are quite frankly um remarkable they're quite frankly um remarkable they're quite frankly um remarkable they're quite frankly remarkable they are uh peer-reviewed remarkable they are uh peer-reviewed remarkable they are uh peer-reviewed studies that have been published um went studies that have been published um went studies that have been published um went through very sort of scientifically through very sort of scientifically through very sort of scientifically rigorous processes to make sure that rigorous processes to make sure that rigorous processes to make sure that they were valid and in these studies we they were valid and in these studies we they were valid and in these studies we see breakthroughs that I think the past see breakthroughs that I think the past see breakthroughs that I think the past people thought were impossible but if we

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people thought were impossible but if we people thought were impossible but if we just focus in then on that breathing just focus in then on that breathing just focus in then on that breathing because you you described that as the because you you described that as the because you you described that as the first step if I have never breathed in first step if I have never breathed in first step if I have never breathed in my life I've never done it I've never my life I've never done it I've never my life I've never done it I've never heard about it I'm a I'm skeptical to it heard about it I'm a I'm skeptical to it heard about it I'm a I'm skeptical to it I think breathing is just something we I think breathing is just something we I think breathing is just something we don't think about um what do you mean by breathing and um what do you mean by breathing and what kind of breathing and can you what kind of breathing and can you what kind of breathing and can you explain to me like I'm an idiot what explain to me like I'm an idiot what explain to me like I'm an idiot what it's doing yeah what it is doing for example I'm uh yeah what it is doing for example I'm uh now busy with cardiologists and they saw now busy with cardiologists and they saw now busy with cardiologists and they saw in heart films that if you stop in heart films that if you stop in heart films that if you stop breathing after exhalation for one and a breathing after exhalation for one and a breathing after exhalation for one and a half minute five times more blood flows half minute five times more blood flows half minute five times more blood flows into the brain and to the heart this into the brain and to the heart this into the brain and to the heart this what has never been shown and now it has what has never been shown and now it has what has never been shown and now it has been shown through these breathing been shown through these breathing been shown through these breathing techniques I mean this really goes so techniques I mean this really goes so techniques I mean this really goes so deep we are able to make uh these uh deep we are able to make uh these uh deep we are able to make uh these uh through these breathing techniques uh

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through these breathing techniques uh through these breathing techniques uh change our blood's chemistry uh bring up change our blood's chemistry uh bring up change our blood's chemistry uh bring up the pH levels way up by which the the pH levels way up by which the the pH levels way up by which the breathing trigger is not happening breathing trigger is not happening breathing trigger is not happening because it's depending on the CO2 level because it's depending on the CO2 level because it's depending on the CO2 level in our blood if we breathe like 30 times like this you become a like 30 times like this you become a little bit woie a little bit dizzy why little bit woie a little bit dizzy why little bit woie a little bit dizzy why because the CO2 levels go way because the CO2 levels go way because the CO2 levels go way down you blow it off carbon dioxide have down you blow it off carbon dioxide have down you blow it off carbon dioxide have we forgotten how to to breathe like that we forgotten how to to breathe like that we forgotten how to to breathe like that is that is oh yes is that the natural is that is oh yes is that the natural is that is oh yes is that the natural way of breathing no not exactly okay way of breathing no not exactly okay way of breathing no not exactly okay what what what is exactly is that we uh what what what is exactly is that we uh what what what is exactly is that we uh have forgotten to feel Deep have forgotten to feel Deep have forgotten to feel Deep Emotions uh to be uh in connection with Emotions uh to be uh in connection with Emotions uh to be uh in connection with danger danger is a deep

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emotion or the emotion or the cold it's it's deep we avoid these cold it's it's deep we avoid these cold it's it's deep we avoid these emotions but they are we are built to emotions but they are we are built to emotions but they are we are built to receive it to express it and uh with receive it to express it and uh with receive it to express it and uh with that comes alive the deeper mechanisms that comes alive the deeper mechanisms that comes alive the deeper mechanisms in our body and be if that longterm is in our body and be if that longterm is in our body and be if that longterm is not exercise not exercise not exercise those deeper mechanisms and among that those deeper mechanisms and among that those deeper mechanisms and among that is not only the emotion it's also the is not only the emotion it's also the is not only the emotion it's also the immune system it becomes weaker we immune system it becomes weaker we immune system it becomes weaker we become more become more become more flid we become insensitive look at the flid we become insensitive look at the flid we become insensitive look at the insensitivity in our society Gaza is insensitivity in our society Gaza is insensitivity in our society Gaza is happening yeah protest is we should stop happening yeah protest is we should stop happening yeah protest is we should stop that [ __ ] we should stop those Wars cuz that [ __ ] we should stop those Wars cuz that [ __ ] we should stop those Wars cuz kids little kids are here jeopardized kids little kids are here jeopardized kids little kids are here jeopardized and we cannot even feel it anymore you and we cannot even feel it anymore you and we cannot even feel it anymore you know that this insensitivity in US is a

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know that this insensitivity in US is a know that this insensitivity in US is a is a plague is a plague because we serve is a plague is a plague because we serve is a plague is a plague because we serve a system that runs well on people being a system that runs well on people being a system that runs well on people being obedient and being flaccid not really obedient and being flaccid not really obedient and being flaccid not really sensitive because if you are really sensitive because if you are really sensitive because if you are really sensitive you don't go to a to a slave sensitive you don't go to a to a slave sensitive you don't go to a to a slave job every every day and come back job every every day and come back job every every day and come back stressed and the other day you do it stressed and the other day you do it stressed and the other day you do it again and again again again what we again and again again again what we again and again again again what we should do within our eles is learning should do within our eles is learning should do within our eles is learning how to connect into the depth and this how to connect into the depth and this how to connect into the depth and this is what I give through the C we bring is what I give through the C we bring is what I give through the C we bring these deeper emotions alive and then you these deeper emotions alive and then you these deeper emotions alive and then you will not abide to that what makes you will not abide to that what makes you will not abide to that what makes you weak to that what kills your purpose we weak to that what kills your purpose we weak to that what kills your purpose we got to stand up as humanity and more got to stand up as humanity and more got to stand up as humanity and more more now than ever and here we are and more now than ever and here we are and more now than ever and here we are and uh whim how do you do that very simple uh whim how do you do that very simple uh whim how do you do that very simple do this breathing techniques do it on

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do this breathing techniques do it on do this breathing techniques do it on your your your bed on a sofa or very controlled because bed on a sofa or very controlled because bed on a sofa or very controlled because you will go past your conditioned mind you will go past your conditioned mind you will go past your conditioned mind and body the the shallow breathing we do and body the the shallow breathing we do and body the the shallow breathing we do we say that is breathing that's not we say that is breathing that's not we say that is breathing that's not breathing that is automatic reflex of breathing that is automatic reflex of breathing that is automatic reflex of your body doing your body doing your body doing something and there it is now you take something and there it is now you take something and there it is now you take over consciously you start to breathe over consciously you start to breathe over consciously you start to breathe deeper you go past these deeper you go past these deeper you go past these patterns depicted by a conditioned body patterns depicted by a conditioned body patterns depicted by a conditioned body and that conditioning is only serving and that conditioning is only serving and that conditioning is only serving the system but not necessarily you I the system but not necessarily you I the system but not necessarily you I want you to take over the steer wheel I want you to take over the steer wheel I want you to take over the steer wheel I want you to be conscious and then go want you to be conscious and then go want you to be conscious and then go with that conscious into deeper with that conscious into deeper with that conscious into deeper breathing break the patterns of your breathing break the patterns of your breathing break the patterns of your conditioning and suddenly uh your uh conditioning and suddenly uh your uh conditioning and suddenly uh your uh deeper traumas your deeper feelings are deeper traumas your deeper feelings are deeper traumas your deeper feelings are able to come to the surface is being able to come to the surface is being able to come to the surface is being stored up being stashed away forever and

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stored up being stashed away forever and stored up being stashed away forever and and that is what is happening in the and that is what is happening in the and that is what is happening in the first session we first session we first session we do I I can promise any any person uh who do I I can promise any any person uh who do I I can promise any any person uh who is doing it will encounter a such a is doing it will encounter a such a is doing it will encounter a such a tremendous experience of himself from tremendous experience of himself from tremendous experience of himself from the depth coming to the surface and the depth coming to the surface and the depth coming to the surface and that's only the depth coming to the that's only the depth coming to the that's only the depth coming to the servant that's all and it's beautiful servant that's all and it's beautiful servant that's all and it's beautiful I'm so intrigued as to as to how that I'm so intrigued as to as to how that I'm so intrigued as to as to how that happens so CU I've had lots of friends happens so CU I've had lots of friends happens so CU I've had lots of friends that that that are very um focused on breathing using are very um focused on breathing using are very um focused on breathing using your techniques obviously I told you your techniques obviously I told you your techniques obviously I told you before we started recording my partner before we started recording my partner before we started recording my partner runs a breath work studio called barley runs a breath work studio called barley runs a breath work studio called barley breath work where she has committed her breath work where she has committed her breath work where she has committed her life to using the breath to heal people life to using the breath to heal people life to using the breath to heal people but I I'd like someone to explain to me but I I'd like someone to explain to me but I I'd like someone to explain to me you know how if I take hold of the you know how if I take hold of the you know how if I take hold of the steering wheel and I go past those sort steering wheel and I go past those sort steering wheel and I go past those sort of unconscious breathing um of unconscious breathing um of unconscious breathing um patterns why does that unlock trauma

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patterns why does that unlock trauma patterns why does that unlock trauma because when I go to my when I um have because when I go to my when I um have because when I go to my when I um have been to my partner's breath work been to my partner's breath work been to my partner's breath work sessions when they end people are sessions when they end people are sessions when they end people are talking about very deep forms of trauma talking about very deep forms of trauma talking about very deep forms of trauma that they've suddenly encountered and that they've suddenly encountered and that they've suddenly encountered and I'm wondering how is the breath doing I'm wondering how is the breath doing I'm wondering how is the breath doing that how is the breath unlocking that that how is the breath unlocking that that how is the breath unlocking that stuff what is where is it hidden you stuff what is where is it hidden you stuff what is where is it hidden you know I don't understand the breaths know I don't understand the breaths know I don't understand the breaths connection to our trauma so traumas are connection to our trauma so traumas are connection to our trauma so traumas are a stored Up chemistry it's unprocessed a stored Up chemistry it's unprocessed a stored Up chemistry it's unprocessed it's when a experience happens and you it's when a experience happens and you it's when a experience happens and you cannot deal with it you can't process it cannot deal with it you can't process it cannot deal with it you can't process it you don't understand it's being stashed you don't understand it's being stashed you don't understand it's being stashed away and it becomes biochemical stored away and it becomes biochemical stored away and it becomes biochemical stored up up up uh stored up capacity of the body is uh stored up capacity of the body is uh stored up capacity of the body is simply there in our deeper tissue but simply there in our deeper tissue but simply there in our deeper tissue but our conditioned mind and body is not our conditioned mind and body is not our conditioned mind and body is not able to get into that depth just by able to get into that depth just by able to get into that depth just by thinking yes but that we are thinking thinking yes but that we are thinking thinking yes but that we are thinking too much and uh we know something is too much and uh we know something is too much and uh we know something is wrong inside but we cannot connect with wrong inside but we cannot connect with wrong inside but we cannot connect with that now if we change the patterns we

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that now if we change the patterns we that now if we change the patterns we normally go into with our breathing and normally go into with our breathing and normally go into with our breathing and thinking which goes paed which controls thinking which goes paed which controls thinking which goes paed which controls our our our heart it's conditioning H if we are into heart it's conditioning H if we are into heart it's conditioning H if we are into that conditioning and we start simply that conditioning and we start simply that conditioning and we start simply and that makes it so beautiful that it and that makes it so beautiful that it and that makes it so beautiful that it is so simple and uh H how it uh uh then is so simple and uh H how it uh uh then is so simple and uh H how it uh uh then uh suddenly is able to get into this Tau uh suddenly is able to get into this Tau uh suddenly is able to get into this Tau to regulate our mood in the depth is by to regulate our mood in the depth is by to regulate our mood in the depth is by a cab cannaboid receptors the last study a cab cannaboid receptors the last study a cab cannaboid receptors the last study we did is a landmark study Landmark we did is a landmark study Landmark we did is a landmark study Landmark study done by Professor DBU divar in study done by Professor DBU divar in study done by Professor DBU divar in Detroit and it shows that the Detroit and it shows that the Detroit and it shows that the cannabinoid cannabinoid cannabinoid receptors are a part of the Salient receptors are a part of the Salient receptors are a part of the Salient Network the Salient network is that what Network the Salient network is that what Network the Salient network is that what makes all the networks in the brain work makes all the networks in the brain work makes all the networks in the brain work together and uh with that we get a hold

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together and uh with that we get a hold together and uh with that we get a hold of H areas we normally don't have of H areas we normally don't have of H areas we normally don't have connection to so what the breathing does connection to so what the breathing does connection to so what the breathing does in the depth is activating the in the depth is activating the in the depth is activating the connectors in the body called connectors in the body called connectors in the body called cannabinoid receptors by which uh deeper cannabinoid receptors by which uh deeper cannabinoid receptors by which uh deeper uh realities of our uh physiology uh uh realities of our uh physiology uh uh realities of our uh physiology uh open up and that is a natural thing to open up and that is a natural thing to open up and that is a natural thing to happen when we are in peace no longer in happen when we are in peace no longer in happen when we are in peace no longer in the trauma in the accident no now we are the trauma in the accident no now we are the trauma in the accident no now we are in peace now we should be able to work in peace now we should be able to work in peace now we should be able to work out what has been stored up that is a out what has been stored up that is a out what has been stored up that is a natural capacity of ours to do that but natural capacity of ours to do that but natural capacity of ours to do that but we have never learned in our society in we have never learned in our society in we have never learned in our society in our schooling how to do it and not even our schooling how to do it and not even our schooling how to do it and not even in Psychiatry they give you pills and in Psychiatry they give you pills and in Psychiatry they give you pills and they give you medicines that's makes a they give you medicines that's makes a they give you medicines that's makes a lot of money but it doesn't solve the

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lot of money but it doesn't solve the lot of money but it doesn't solve the problem people become catatonic people problem people become catatonic people problem people become catatonic people become my wife too after treatment in become my wife too after treatment in become my wife too after treatment in Psychiatry the first wife she became her Psychiatry the first wife she became her Psychiatry the first wife she became her eyes like like a zombie yeah a zombie eyes like like a zombie yeah a zombie eyes like like a zombie yeah a zombie this is a blasphemy this is scandalous this is a blasphemy this is scandalous this is a blasphemy this is scandalous in Psychiatry that they keep on doing in Psychiatry that they keep on doing in Psychiatry that they keep on doing that now I get a lot of that now I get a lot of that now I get a lot of psychiatrists uh a cognitive psychiatrists uh a cognitive psychiatrists uh a cognitive psychologists about cognitive therapist psychologists about cognitive therapist psychologists about cognitive therapist and they say when the cognitive and they say when the cognitive and they say when the cognitive therapies have no solution anymore we do therapies have no solution anymore we do therapies have no solution anymore we do breathing and it it just brings solution breathing and it it just brings solution breathing and it it just brings solution so it is simple so effective but it so it is simple so effective but it so it is simple so effective but it doesn't make doesn't make doesn't make money it it makes people money it it makes people money it it makes people understand I feel so much better how is understand I feel so much better how is understand I feel so much better how is that that possible and that that's simply that how possible and that that's simply that how possible and that that's simply that how it works it works it works we just did The Landmark study with the

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we just did The Landmark study with the we just did The Landmark study with the compelling findings that we actually compelling findings that we actually compelling findings that we actually found found found interception interceptive Focus suddenly interception interceptive Focus suddenly interception interceptive Focus suddenly being able to regulate our mood emotion being able to regulate our mood emotion being able to regulate our mood emotion much better so we are able to listen if much better so we are able to listen if much better so we are able to listen if we listen to our body and we feel bad we we listen to our body and we feel bad we we listen to our body and we feel bad we can change that we uh we found now the can change that we uh we found now the can change that we uh we found now the key how to do that first of all you do key how to do that first of all you do key how to do that first of all you do the breathing the breathing the breathing called of course called training not too called of course called training not too called of course called training not too much never too much just much never too much just much never too much just relax we are very capable to even take relax we are very capable to even take relax we are very capable to even take like Patrice Eva who was completely like Patrice Eva who was completely like Patrice Eva who was completely hating it because of his when he was hating it because of his when he was hating it because of his when he was young he got it as a punishment you have young he got it as a punishment you have young he got it as a punishment you have to take it nice and good and open up to to take it nice and good and open up to to take it nice and good and open up to the Natural capacity to take it on he the Natural capacity to take it on he the Natural capacity to take it on he will was the best absolute best taken on

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will was the best absolute best taken on will was the best absolute best taken on icy water for 16 minutes he was in and icy water for 16 minutes he was in and icy water for 16 minutes he was in and he wanted to stay there in and BBC was he wanted to stay there in and BBC was he wanted to stay there in and BBC was like oh no this is too dangerous please like oh no this is too dangerous please like oh no this is too dangerous please come out yeah yeah you have no you have come out yeah yeah you have no you have come out yeah yeah you have no you have to come out patri okay okay and he was to come out patri okay okay and he was to come out patri okay okay and he was just walking out and you know what I just walking out and you know what I just walking out and you know what I felt his skin he was not even called so felt his skin he was not even called so felt his skin he was not even called so just for context is that power that's just for context is that power that's just for context is that power that's that power it's so simple for people that power it's so simple for people that power it's so simple for people that don't know Patrice is a good friend that don't know Patrice is a good friend that don't know Patrice is a good friend of mine Patrice ever he's been on this of mine Patrice ever he's been on this of mine Patrice ever he's been on this podcast before and um he he told me that podcast before and um he he told me that podcast before and um he he told me that whims techniques had really changed his whims techniques had really changed his whims techniques had really changed his life especially his relationship with life especially his relationship with life especially his relationship with cold water he was like me he told cold water he was like me he told cold water he was like me he told himself that because of his I don't know himself that because of his I don't know himself that because of his I don't know his race where he came from his DNA he his race where he came from his DNA he his race where he came from his DNA he wasn't able to spend time in cold water wasn't able to spend time in cold water wasn't able to spend time in cold water but I think what he discovered through but I think what he discovered through but I think what he discovered through whim was that that was actually a trauma whim was that that was actually a trauma whim was that that was actually a trauma because when he was younger his father because when he was younger his father because when he was younger his father used cold water as a punishment so he used cold water as a punishment so he used cold water as a punishment so he had this trauma with cold water and had this trauma with cold water and had this trauma with cold water and after doing your uh program and spending after doing your uh program and spending after doing your uh program and spending time with you he was the very very best

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time with you he was the very very best time with you he was the very very best at staying in cold water and when I was at staying in cold water and when I was at staying in cold water and when I was with him recently was amazing he he with him recently was amazing he he with him recently was amazing he he jumped in that cold water without jumped in that cold water without jumped in that cold water without flinching you know and he told me that flinching you know and he told me that flinching you know and he told me that throughout his entire Manchester United throughout his entire Manchester United throughout his entire Manchester United playing career he was always the one playing career he was always the one playing career he was always the one that never got into the um the the cold that never got into the um the the cold that never got into the um the the cold recovery plunge pools at Manchester recovery plunge pools at Manchester recovery plunge pools at Manchester United after the game he always avoided United after the game he always avoided United after the game he always avoided it and he just wishes he wishes that he it and he just wishes he wishes that he it and he just wishes he wishes that he knew what he knows now about the power knew what he knows now about the power knew what he knows now about the power of cold water because then he would have of cold water because then he would have of cold water because then he would have been able to recover better as a as a been able to recover better as a as a been able to recover better as a as a player that's that's what he told me I player that's that's what he told me I player that's that's what he told me I have the I have the study here in front have the I have the study here in front have the I have the study here in front of me that you described there I think of me that you described there I think of me that you described there I think it's the um the Michigan brain over body it's the um the Michigan brain over body it's the um the Michigan brain over body study that was the first study and then study that was the first study and then study that was the first study and then came a second came a second came a second study uh the first study I was compared study uh the first study I was compared study uh the first study I was compared to to to 74 test subjects per people and they 74 test subjects per people and they 74 test subjects per people and they were all going into the uh having a a were all going into the uh having a a were all going into the uh having a a profusion vest what is been used in when profusion vest what is been used in when profusion vest what is been used in when firefighters go into the work they have firefighters go into the work they have firefighters go into the work they have a cold water going through a perfusion

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a cold water going through a perfusion a cold water going through a perfusion vest full of tubes so it's a vest where vest full of tubes so it's a vest where vest full of tubes so it's a vest where they pump cold water yes okay so they they pump cold water yes okay so they they pump cold water yes okay so they are able to endure the heat of the fire are able to endure the heat of the fire are able to endure the heat of the fire better okay to fight the fire so they better okay to fight the fire so they better okay to fight the fire so they took that into uh body scans fmri scans took that into uh body scans fmri scans took that into uh body scans fmri scans and uh pump cold water into these vests and uh pump cold water into these vests and uh pump cold water into these vests while the people were while the people were while the people were Motionless In These Motionless In These Motionless In These FM and so every time when the cold water FM and so every time when the cold water FM and so every time when the cold water was pumped in uh the body's uh uh skin was pumped in uh the body's uh uh skin was pumped in uh the body's uh uh skin temperature would go temperature would go temperature would go down and uh and then warmed up down and uh and then warmed up down and uh and then warmed up again a skin temperature going up and again a skin temperature going up and again a skin temperature going up and that correlates in the brain with that correlates in the brain with that correlates in the brain with stress and uh uh uh and those stress stress and uh uh uh and those stress stress and uh uh uh and those stress mechanisms then when the cold is being mechanisms then when the cold is being mechanisms then when the cold is being pumped in is very clearly seen on the pumped in is very clearly seen on the pumped in is very clearly seen on the monitor of these people who connected

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monitor of these people who connected monitor of these people who connected the people with the people with the people with electrodes you could see it on the electrodes you could see it on the electrodes you could see it on the monitor the way the brain was being monitor the way the brain was being monitor the way the brain was being activated oh these are the stress activated oh these are the stress activated oh these are the stress mechanisms and now is the warmth oh now mechanisms and now is the warmth oh now mechanisms and now is the warmth oh now is the uh the areas of well-being of the is the uh the areas of well-being of the is the uh the areas of well-being of the brain H activated insula and the and the brain H activated insula and the and the brain H activated insula and the and the and the per aqueductal and the per aqueductal and the per aqueductal gray whatever the names I I call it a gray whatever the names I I call it a gray whatever the names I I call it a the the positive and the negative the the positive and the negative the the positive and the negative registration of uh of stress and or registration of uh of stress and or registration of uh of stress and or well-being yeah those parts and they well-being yeah those parts and they well-being yeah those parts and they nobody could change that what if we nobody could change that what if we nobody could change that what if we could make the feeling well part of the could make the feeling well part of the could make the feeling well part of the brain at work when the stress comes in brain at work when the stress comes in brain at work when the stress comes in so what if we could feel choose to feel so what if we could feel choose to feel so what if we could feel choose to feel good when stress comes ah this was never good when stress comes ah this was never good when stress comes ah this was never been shown in psychiatry been shown in psychiatry been shown in psychiatry so they had this so they had this so they had this experimental uh

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experimental uh experimental uh module there and then uh nobody could module there and then uh nobody could module there and then uh nobody could make a different brain scan possible make a different brain scan possible make a different brain scan possible when stress comes in through the cold when stress comes in through the cold when stress comes in through the cold being pumped in to the skin then stress being pumped in to the skin then stress being pumped in to the skin then stress part of the brain is activated nobody part of the brain is activated nobody part of the brain is activated nobody could make that not go uh activated not could make that not go uh activated not could make that not go uh activated not go go go away and I could I didn't feel the cult away and I could I didn't feel the cult away and I could I didn't feel the cult when it came in because I warmed up my when it came in because I warmed up my when it came in because I warmed up my body willfully nobody believed that was body willfully nobody believed that was body willfully nobody believed that was possible um until until you did it I possible um until until you did it I possible um until until you did it I want to just recount that the first want to just recount that the first want to just recount that the first study which was done and published in study which was done and published in study which was done and published in 2018 it was carried out at Wayne State 2018 it was carried out at Wayne State 2018 it was carried out at Wayne State University in Michigan and scientists University in Michigan and scientists University in Michigan and scientists looked at the way that the body and the looked at the way that the body and the looked at the way that the body and the Brain reacted to changes in temperature Brain reacted to changes in temperature Brain reacted to changes in temperature whenever anyone feels the cold um they whenever anyone feels the cold um they whenever anyone feels the cold um they typically have a auto automatic bodily typically have a auto automatic bodily typically have a auto automatic bodily response um but also you can see that response um but also you can see that response um but also you can see that that response in the brain the narrowing that response in the brain the narrowing that response in the brain the narrowing of blood vessels to protect organs uh

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of blood vessels to protect organs uh of blood vessels to protect organs uh increased energy and and pain signals so increased energy and and pain signals so increased energy and and pain signals so to test whether you could control that to test whether you could control that to test whether you could control that um those responses to the cold um those responses to the cold um those responses to the cold scientists created a full body suit in scientists created a full body suit in scientists created a full body suit in which they would pump cold or warm water which they would pump cold or warm water which they would pump cold or warm water into your into your body on normal test into your into your body on normal test into your into your body on normal test subjects their skin temperature would subjects their skin temperature would subjects their skin temperature would rise and fall with the change in water rise and fall with the change in water rise and fall with the change in water temperature which is what you'd expect temperature which is what you'd expect temperature which is what you'd expect when whim underwent the experiment when whim underwent the experiment when whim underwent the experiment without his breathing techniques his without his breathing techniques his without his breathing techniques his skin temperature changes were very skin temperature changes were very skin temperature changes were very similar to the normal people however similar to the normal people however similar to the normal people however when he used the breathing and when he used the breathing and when he used the breathing and meditation techniques he kept a meditation techniques he kept a meditation techniques he kept a sustained skin temperature of 34° over sustained skin temperature of 34° over sustained skin temperature of 34° over 25 minutes which was never thought to be 25 minutes which was never thought to be 25 minutes which was never thought to be humanly possible when he was put in a humanly possible when he was put in a humanly possible when he was put in a pet scan to see what was happening pet scan to see what was happening pet scan to see what was happening inside his body scientists saw that the inside his body scientists saw that the inside his body scientists saw that the intercostal muscles which is the muscles intercostal muscles which is the muscles intercostal muscles which is the muscles between your ribs were burning a lot of between your ribs were burning a lot of between your ribs were burning a lot of glucose and releasing heat into your glucose and releasing heat into your glucose and releasing heat into your body which was keeping your body warm body which was keeping your body warm body which was keeping your body warm when looking at whims brain scientists when looking at whims brain scientists when looking at whims brain scientists saw that it didn't have the same saw that it didn't have the same saw that it didn't have the same unconscious reaction to the cold as

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unconscious reaction to the cold as unconscious reaction to the cold as normal people's brains did his breathing normal people's brains did his breathing normal people's brains did his breathing technique engaged the sympathetic technique engaged the sympathetic technique engaged the sympathetic nervous system releasing adrenaline and nervous system releasing adrenaline and nervous system releasing adrenaline and triggered the area of the brain stem triggered the area of the brain stem triggered the area of the brain stem which is that um area you describing which is that um area you describing which is that um area you describing before aqueductal gry hemisphere that before aqueductal gry hemisphere that before aqueductal gry hemisphere that perceives pain the triggering of the perceives pain the triggering of the perceives pain the triggering of the brain stem released cannaboids and brain stem released cannaboids and brain stem released cannaboids and opioids and these chemicals gave a sense opioids and these chemicals gave a sense opioids and these chemicals gave a sense of well-being and reduced anxiety and of well-being and reduced anxiety and of well-being and reduced anxiety and this study showed that whim had control this study showed that whim had control this study showed that whim had control over the autonomous nervous um over the autonomous nervous um over the autonomous nervous um autonomous systems of the brain and the autonomous systems of the brain and the autonomous systems of the brain and the brain's automatic responses to the cold brain's automatic responses to the cold brain's automatic responses to the cold the results of this study have been uh the results of this study have been uh the results of this study have been uh tremendous and they have proven the tremendous and they have proven the tremendous and they have proven the massive potential implications for the massive potential implications for the massive potential implications for the IM immune system disorders like diabetes IM immune system disorders like diabetes IM immune system disorders like diabetes Ms and arthritis in Psychiatry so it the Ms and arthritis in Psychiatry so it the Ms and arthritis in Psychiatry so it the TDR of that is the study really proved TDR of that is the study really proved TDR of that is the study really proved that the stress we encounter throughout that the stress we encounter throughout that the stress we encounter throughout our lives we do have control over it we our lives we do have control over it we our lives we do have control over it we have control over the impact it has on have control over the impact it has on have control over the impact it has on our physiological our physiological our physiological systems but also you know our brain and systems but also you know our brain and systems but also you know our brain and how we experience it because you were

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how we experience it because you were how we experience it because you were able to not experience cold yes the pain able to not experience cold yes the pain able to not experience cold yes the pain of cold the stress of c and it was not of cold the stress of c and it was not of cold the stress of c and it was not about the cold it was about how to deal about the cold it was about how to deal about the cold it was about how to deal with stress stress can come in many ways with stress stress can come in many ways with stress stress can come in many ways emotionally physically spiritually it emotionally physically spiritually it emotionally physically spiritually it can come in many ways in the end it is can come in many ways in the end it is can come in many ways in the end it is biochemical stress it it turns into biochemical stress it it turns into biochemical stress it it turns into biochemistry neurotoxins Etc it biochemistry neurotoxins Etc it biochemistry neurotoxins Etc it accumulates it gets in the body accumulates it gets in the body accumulates it gets in the body creates blockages it it drains and you creates blockages it it drains and you creates blockages it it drains and you don't know what to do with it and and don't know what to do with it and and don't know what to do with it and and then medicines come in and pills and it then medicines come in and pills and it then medicines come in and pills and it only deteriorates it it gets worse and only deteriorates it it gets worse and only deteriorates it it gets worse and and that besides of the side effects and that besides of the side effects and that besides of the side effects thing is I used the cult back when I was thing is I used the cult back when I was thing is I used the cult back when I was with my wife who died to get my with my wife who died to get my with my wife who died to get my emotional Agony out of the emotional Agony out of the emotional Agony out of the way and uh it was the doorway to open up way and uh it was the doorway to open up way and uh it was the doorway to open up my healing my spiritual healing of me as

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my healing my spiritual healing of me as my healing my spiritual healing of me as a puppy of my children just to be happy a puppy of my children just to be happy a puppy of my children just to be happy with them and to provide energy and with them and to provide energy and with them and to provide energy and well-being without this well-being without this well-being without this traumatizing Darkness around us so I traumatizing Darkness around us so I traumatizing Darkness around us so I found it through the cult yet it is not found it through the cult yet it is not found it through the cult yet it is not about the cold it's about that I about the cold it's about that I about the cold it's about that I regained Mastery over my to bring back regained Mastery over my to bring back regained Mastery over my to bring back my emotion my emotion my emotion uninterrupted cuz we should be able to uninterrupted cuz we should be able to uninterrupted cuz we should be able to guide our emotional state of being guide our emotional state of being guide our emotional state of being anytime when we feel bad naturally anytime when we feel bad naturally anytime when we feel bad naturally naturally and that that that is what naturally and that that that is what naturally and that that that is what this shows and now upon this study they this shows and now upon this study they this shows and now upon this study they did another study and then they saw even did another study and then they saw even did another study and then they saw even without me now people can do without me now people can do without me now people can do this and that's what I wanted that is this and that's what I wanted that is this and that's what I wanted that is the study Landmark study being done last

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the study Landmark study being done last the study Landmark study being done last January published so that's TW 24 and uh January published so that's TW 24 and uh January published so that's TW 24 and uh six years past the covid and all H and six years past the covid and all H and six years past the covid and all H and now they see compelling evidence to keep now they see compelling evidence to keep now they see compelling evidence to keep on and to make these studies much bigger on and to make these studies much bigger on and to make these studies much bigger because their potential is that we found because their potential is that we found because their potential is that we found to key called intercep to key called intercep to key called intercep interception to be so strong interception to be so strong interception to be so strong that we are able to control our that we are able to control our that we are able to control our emotional emotional emotional well-being throughout whatever stress well-being throughout whatever stress well-being throughout whatever stress there is but it's not just our emotional there is but it's not just our emotional there is but it's not just our emotional well-being it's also our immune system well-being it's also our immune system well-being it's also our immune system of course that goes also with it I isn't of course that goes also with it I isn't of course that goes also with it I isn't a a healthy person a happy person kind a a healthy person a happy person kind a a healthy person a happy person kind of you know isn't it of you know isn't it of you know isn't it interrelated I want to just highlight interrelated I want to just highlight interrelated I want to just highlight this because this for me when I heard this because this for me when I heard this because this for me when I heard this many years ago I thought this was this many years ago I thought this was this many years ago I thought this was uh I thought this couldn't possibly be uh I thought this couldn't possibly be uh I thought this couldn't possibly be true true true but in but in but in 2010 um when you were 51 years old you

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2010 um when you were 51 years old you 2010 um when you were 51 years old you took part in a study at Rand bound took part in a study at Rand bound took part in a study at Rand bound University Medical Center in the University Medical Center in the University Medical Center in the Netherlands where you were injected with Netherlands where you were injected with Netherlands where you were injected with a a bacterial toxin a dead straight of a a bacterial toxin a dead straight of a a bacterial toxin a dead straight of ecoli in previous studies of a 100 ecoli in previous studies of a 100 ecoli in previous studies of a 100 healthy people they responded to that healthy people they responded to that healthy people they responded to that injection with a flu like response which injection with a flu like response which injection with a flu like response which is what you'd expect you'd get the flu is what you'd expect you'd get the flu is what you'd expect you'd get the flu if you were injected with that however if you were injected with that however if you were injected with that however when when you were injected with that uh when when you were injected with that uh when when you were injected with that uh bacterial toxin bacterial toxin bacterial toxin uh you had no negative immune response uh you had no negative immune response uh you had no negative immune response apart from a minor apart from a minor apart from a minor headache your but blood results also headache your but blood results also headache your but blood results also showed the release of cortisol showed the release of cortisol showed the release of cortisol adrenaline and the messenger messenger adrenaline and the messenger messenger adrenaline and the messenger messenger chemical il10 which is an chemical il10 which is an chemical il10 which is an anti-inflammatory pro protein all of anti-inflammatory pro protein all of anti-inflammatory pro protein all of which helped you to fight off that which helped you to fight off that which helped you to fight off that bacteria uh however to prove that this bacteria uh however to prove that this bacteria uh however to prove that this wasn't just you being some superhuman wasn't just you being some superhuman wasn't just you being some superhuman scientists gathered 30 male volunteers scientists gathered 30 male volunteers scientists gathered 30 male volunteers 12 were put into a control Group which 12 were put into a control Group which 12 were put into a control Group which meant that they were just normal and 18 meant that they were just normal and 18 meant that they were just normal and 18 were trained by you uh you took 18 of

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were trained by you uh you took 18 of were trained by you uh you took 18 of them to Poland for 4 days to train them them to Poland for 4 days to train them them to Poland for 4 days to train them on meditation cold exposure annual on meditation cold exposure annual on meditation cold exposure annual breathing techniques and when they were breathing techniques and when they were breathing techniques and when they were injected with the um bacterial toxin uh injected with the um bacterial toxin uh injected with the um bacterial toxin uh the dead strain of ecoli the trained the dead strain of ecoli the trained the dead strain of ecoli the trained group had a significantly less immune group had a significantly less immune group had a significantly less immune response recovered quicker and their response recovered quicker and their response recovered quicker and their bodily responses were similar to your bodily responses were similar to your bodily responses were similar to your own this was a major scientific own this was a major scientific own this was a major scientific breakthrough and it showed people could breakthrough and it showed people could breakthrough and it showed people could voluntarily control voluntarily control voluntarily control their automatic nervous system and their automatic nervous system and their automatic nervous system and immune immune immune response which was previously thought to response which was previously thought to response which was previously thought to be impossible and that's the viewer the be impossible and that's the viewer the be impossible and that's the viewer the viewer is looking at this now that's you viewer is looking at this now that's you viewer is looking at this now that's you and and that's where we want to reach and and that's where we want to reach and and that's where we want to reach out to you have the uh uh absolute out to you have the uh uh absolute out to you have the uh uh absolute capacity to rule so much better within capacity to rule so much better within capacity to rule so much better within your own body and I'm I'm I'm doing the your own body and I'm I'm I'm doing the your own body and I'm I'm I'm doing the science I'm following the science and I science I'm following the science and I science I'm following the science and I think it's scandalous of the scientific think it's scandalous of the scientific think it's scandalous of the scientific Community not to have Dove upon this why

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Community not to have Dove upon this why Community not to have Dove upon this why don't we is it because it's difficult no don't we is it because it's difficult no don't we is it because it's difficult no it's not difficult it's not now like I it's not difficult it's not now like I it's not difficult it's not now like I don't know over the 100 million people don't know over the 100 million people don't know over the 100 million people are doing this but through the are doing this but through the are doing this but through the scientific World which is uh also in the scientific World which is uh also in the scientific World which is uh also in the beginning of this conversation it's beginning of this conversation it's beginning of this conversation it's corrupted they get funding from the corrupted they get funding from the corrupted they get funding from the pharmaceutical industry and that's all pharmaceutical industry and that's all pharmaceutical industry and that's all good Etc I'm not messing with them uh good Etc I'm not messing with them uh good Etc I'm not messing with them uh but natural ways that could equalize the but natural ways that could equalize the but natural ways that could equalize the results of medicines without side results of medicines without side results of medicines without side effects should at least have a thorough effects should at least have a thorough effects should at least have a thorough examination by the scientific uh Elite examination by the scientific uh Elite examination by the scientific uh Elite world can I just I want to make sure I'm world can I just I want to make sure I'm world can I just I want to make sure I'm super clear on what's going on here and super clear on what's going on here and super clear on what's going on here and what to achieve these phenomenal results what to achieve these phenomenal results what to achieve these phenomenal results um by by having a sort of doing some of um by by having a sort of doing some of um by by having a sort of doing some of these techniques that help us to unlock these techniques that help us to unlock these techniques that help us to unlock the the stress and the trauma that's the the stress and the trauma that's the the stress and the trauma that's deep in our body and that enable us to

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deep in our body and that enable us to deep in our body and that enable us to create a better response with create a better response with create a better response with stress we're able to guard off the stress we're able to guard off the stress we're able to guard off the stress which means we're able to protect stress which means we're able to protect stress which means we're able to protect our well-being which m means that we're our well-being which m means that we're our well-being which m means that we're able to fend off disease because we all able to fend off disease because we all able to fend off disease because we all know that when we're highly stressed our know that when we're highly stressed our know that when we're highly stressed our immune system Falls and we get sick I immune system Falls and we get sick I immune system Falls and we get sick I know in my own life whenever I'm really know in my own life whenever I'm really know in my own life whenever I'm really stressed is the only time that I'll ever stressed is the only time that I'll ever stressed is the only time that I'll ever get a cold or or anything like that is get a cold or or anything like that is get a cold or or anything like that is that is that the simple way of that is that the simple way of that is that the simple way of describing what's going on here yeah yes describing what's going on here yeah yes describing what's going on here yeah yes yes we have this innate capacity to yes we have this innate capacity to yes we have this innate capacity to heighten our buffer zone uh toward uh heighten our buffer zone uh toward uh heighten our buffer zone uh toward uh stress by which stress is not able to do stress by which stress is not able to do stress by which stress is not able to do its damage and is part of the problem its damage and is part of the problem its damage and is part of the problem with the modern way of living that we've with the modern way of living that we've with the modern way of living that we've chosen chosen chosen medication as the answer too often and medication as the answer too often and medication as the answer too often and we've also made our lives as stress free we've also made our lives as stress free we've also made our lives as stress free as we possibly can absolutely absolutely as we possibly can absolutely absolutely as we possibly can absolutely absolutely there is no doubt about it and it is a there is no doubt about it and it is a there is no doubt about it and it is a dead end street by the way and the whole dead end street by the way and the whole dead end street by the way and the whole Health Care system is B burdened by the

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Health Care system is B burdened by the Health Care system is B burdened by the the finances and all it's it's going to the finances and all it's it's going to the finances and all it's it's going to collapse anyway if it keeps on going but collapse anyway if it keeps on going but collapse anyway if it keeps on going but because it is a money-making uh way uh because it is a money-making uh way uh because it is a money-making uh way uh that's why they will keep on going until that's why they will keep on going until that's why they will keep on going until it it it collapses I had professor friedr in Mar collapses I had professor friedr in Mar collapses I had professor friedr in Mar thebook on the line uh talking thebook on the line uh talking thebook on the line uh talking about he said to me whim the about he said to me whim the about he said to me whim the democracy the Democracy as we know it democracy the Democracy as we know it democracy the Democracy as we know it actually is uh at Peril in danger why actually is uh at Peril in danger why actually is uh at Peril in danger why because the people are becoming so because the people are becoming so because the people are becoming so weak and we the democracy is only uh weak and we the democracy is only uh weak and we the democracy is only uh composed by the strength of the people composed by the strength of the people composed by the strength of the people once we get all weaker and a a system once we get all weaker and a a system once we get all weaker and a a system which is corrupt just to uh make money a which is corrupt just to uh make money a which is corrupt just to uh make money a healthy economy on healthy economy on healthy economy on people that wants to stay that way makes

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people that wants to stay that way makes people that wants to stay that way makes the people weaker and weaker by which the people weaker and weaker by which the people weaker and weaker by which the Democracy will know its ant will the Democracy will know its ant will the Democracy will know its ant will collapse and I said hey that weakness in collapse and I said hey that weakness in collapse and I said hey that weakness in the Democracy in people I can make it go the Democracy in people I can make it go the Democracy in people I can make it go away in one week simply sense talking to this week simply sense talking to this professor and he he agreed because he professor and he he agreed because he professor and he he agreed because he saw it he saw it in the people he knew saw it he saw it in the people he knew saw it he saw it in the people he knew it he he knew it from anecdotal evidence it he he knew it from anecdotal evidence it he he knew it from anecdotal evidence he knew it from his family taking up he knew it from his family taking up he knew it from his family taking up these crazy whm Hof techniques going these crazy whm Hof techniques going these crazy whm Hof techniques going into call Wim Hof whatever is a brand into call Wim Hof whatever is a brand into call Wim Hof whatever is a brand name I'm a simple guy I know what it is name I'm a simple guy I know what it is name I'm a simple guy I know what it is to have nothing at all to be a nobody to have nothing at all to be a nobody to have nothing at all to be a nobody and now I got a name and fame and all and now I got a name and fame and all and now I got a name and fame and all that I don't care it's okay if I got to that I don't care it's okay if I got to that I don't care it's okay if I got to stand up I will and I will say hey here stand up I will and I will say hey here stand up I will and I will say hey here I am whim Hof the Iceman and I will

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I am whim Hof the Iceman and I will I am whim Hof the Iceman and I will change the world how through making you change the world how through making you change the world how through making you better than who you think you could be better than who you think you could be better than who you think you could be and that is through the Wim Hof method and that is through the Wim Hof method and that is through the Wim Hof method and fasting is good and fasting is good and fasting is good too to deprive yourself in different too to deprive yourself in different too to deprive yourself in different ways hor matically that is ways hor matically that is ways hor matically that is self-inflicted acute stressful self-inflicted acute stressful self-inflicted acute stressful exercise but do it consciously if you exercise but do it consciously if you exercise but do it consciously if you don't go to the cult the cult will come don't go to the cult the cult will come don't go to the cult the cult will come to you you if you don't go to dist to you you if you don't go to dist to you you if you don't go to dist stress the stress will come to you cuz stress the stress will come to you cuz stress the stress will come to you cuz we are built to endure we are built we we are built to endure we are built we we are built to endure we are built we got these capacities so if we go into got these capacities so if we go into got these capacities so if we go into the cult you will see that there your the cult you will see that there your the cult you will see that there your whole body is able to handle stress so whole body is able to handle stress so whole body is able to handle stress so much better and when you know you are much better and when you know you are much better and when you know you are going into a stressful uh event of any going into a stressful uh event of any going into a stressful uh event of any kind you know willfully to connect kind you know willfully to connect kind you know willfully to connect yourself make your body from the inside yourself make your body from the inside yourself make your body from the inside so strong that the stress out there is so strong that the stress out there is so strong that the stress out there is no problem there's three elements to

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no problem there's three elements to no problem there's three elements to this whim Hoff method there's three this whim Hoff method there's three this whim Hoff method there's three pillars to the method the first is that pillars to the method the first is that pillars to the method the first is that conscious breathing so let's just make conscious breathing so let's just make conscious breathing so let's just make sure we've covered that off if I want to sure we've covered that off if I want to sure we've covered that off if I want to be able to just do this at home if I'm be able to just do this at home if I'm be able to just do this at home if I'm listening now and I'm in my car or I'm listening now and I'm in my car or I'm listening now and I'm in my car or I'm walking the dog or whatever I'm on a walking the dog or whatever I'm on a walking the dog or whatever I'm on a plane what is what is the sort of key plane what is what is the sort of key plane what is what is the sort of key parts of doing the breathing technique parts of doing the breathing technique parts of doing the breathing technique correctly yes do it safe yeah so never correctly yes do it safe yeah so never correctly yes do it safe yeah so never outside where you can lose control okay outside where you can lose control okay outside where you can lose control okay you know when you drive and you lose you know when you drive and you lose you know when you drive and you lose control that's no good when you are in a control that's no good when you are in a control that's no good when you are in a swimming pool you lose control h that's swimming pool you lose control h that's swimming pool you lose control h that's no good H when you are at an Abus and no good H when you are at an Abus and no good H when you are at an Abus and you lose control no good you know you lose control no good you know you lose control no good you know wherever your motoric uh uh uh Power is wherever your motoric uh uh uh Power is wherever your motoric uh uh uh Power is needed to be in control don't do it needed to be in control don't do it needed to be in control don't do it there therefore we say there therefore we say there therefore we say strictly this is a powerful medicinal strictly this is a powerful medicinal strictly this is a powerful medicinal therapeutic therapeutic therapeutic uh exercise through breathing specific

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uh exercise through breathing specific uh exercise through breathing specific breathing uh patterns we take on if for breathing uh patterns we take on if for breathing uh patterns we take on if for example we are sitting now yeah it's example we are sitting now yeah it's example we are sitting now yeah it's safe to do it here yeah even if you safe to do it here yeah even if you safe to do it here yeah even if you faint now then yeah you would maybe fall faint now then yeah you would maybe fall faint now then yeah you would maybe fall here on the ground is a soft uh uh here on the ground is a soft uh uh here on the ground is a soft uh uh carpet here there no problem okay so relax it's a this is also these so relax it's a this is also these moments when you okay relax I'm I'm now moments when you okay relax I'm I'm now moments when you okay relax I'm I'm now turning myself into myself because I'm turning myself into myself because I'm turning myself into myself because I'm going to breathe deeper I'm going to go going to breathe deeper I'm going to go going to breathe deeper I'm going to go past my normal uh control mode normal past my normal uh control mode normal past my normal uh control mode normal conditioning normal thinking so okay am conditioning normal thinking so okay am conditioning normal thinking so okay am I here yes I'm I here yes I'm I here yes I'm here okay here we go we have a belly we here okay here we go we have a belly we here okay here we go we have a belly we have a chest that those uh muscles are have a chest that those uh muscles are have a chest that those uh muscles are connected to the lungs so use your belly connected to the lungs so use your belly connected to the lungs so use your belly and use your uh and use your uh and use your uh chest to inhale

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fully you can go through your mouth fully you can go through your mouth through your nose as you feel how do I through your nose as you feel how do I through your nose as you feel how do I know if I'm doing it correctly with my know if I'm doing it correctly with my know if I'm doing it correctly with my belly yeah just so two breaths in yeah and at a just so two breaths in yeah and at a certain moment becomes one keep on going fully in as deep as one keep on going fully in as deep as possible and Let It Go just Let It Go possible and Let It Go just Let It Go possible and Let It Go just Let It Go and then fully in again as deep as possible let it again as deep as possible let it go all in and Let It

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Go and all in Let It Go the Mind goes with a breath in Let It Go the Mind goes with a breath fully fully fully in Let It in Let It in Let It Go and all Go and all in Let It in Let It Go we are blowing keep on going for in Go we are blowing keep on going for in Go we are blowing keep on going for in blowing of the CO2 carbon blowing of the CO2 carbon blowing of the CO2 carbon dioxide can become a little bit DIY but dioxide can become a little bit DIY but dioxide can become a little bit DIY but that's okay your body is charging up that's okay your body is charging up that's okay your body is charging up it's changing your blood chemistry is changing you may your pH levels go up in changing you may your pH levels go up in your blood we do 10 more fully your blood we do 10 more fully your blood we do 10 more fully in just follow the breath in just follow the breath in just follow the breath whatever feels different breathe into it

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whatever feels different breathe into it whatever feels different breathe into it Let It Let It Let It Go and all Go and all in Let it go this morning at 5:00 I was in Let it go this morning at 5:00 I was in Let it go this morning at 5:00 I was doing this because I Was preparing to be doing this because I Was preparing to be doing this because I Was preparing to be freed in my biochemistry of any [ __ ] and freed in my biochemistry of any [ __ ] and freed in my biochemistry of any [ __ ] and this is cleansing the biochemistry this is cleansing the biochemistry this is cleansing the biochemistry trauma anything anything that is deeply trauma anything anything that is deeply trauma anything anything that is deeply in is being CLE yeah five in is being CLE yeah five in is being CLE yeah five more Let It more Let It more Let It Go fully Go fully Go fully in Let It in Let It Go all Go all Go all in Let It Go all in Let It Go all in Let it in Let it in Let it go last one hold go last one hold go last one hold in let it go and stop after the in let it go and stop after the in let it go and stop after the exhalation close your mouth no breathing exhalation close your mouth no breathing exhalation close your mouth no breathing no need your pH levels are way up no need your pH levels are way up no need your pH levels are way up there's no need for breathing what is

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there's no need for breathing what is there's no need for breathing what is going to happen is what I was saying going to happen is what I was saying going to happen is what I was saying mentioning mentioning mentioning before after one minute and there is no before after one minute and there is no before after one minute and there is no need for breathing because the breathing need for breathing because the breathing need for breathing because the breathing trigger depends on co2 CO2 is blown off trigger depends on co2 CO2 is blown off trigger depends on co2 CO2 is blown off you are biohacking your body you're going deep you're going past body you're going deep you're going past the condition the condition the condition mind and body you're going deeper in the tissue now you're entering into the tissue now you're entering into the deepest part of your deepest part of your deepest part of your brain it's going to shoot out adrenaline brain it's going to shoot out adrenaline brain it's going to shoot out adrenaline epinephrine the adrenal axis is now in epinephrine the adrenal axis is now in epinephrine the adrenal axis is now in activation now slowly but activation now slowly but activation now slowly but surely five times more blood will flow surely five times more blood will flow surely five times more blood will flow into your brain and your heart you feel into your brain and your heart you feel into your brain and your heart you feel peaceful peaceful peaceful you have it fully in control yet the you have it fully in control yet the you have it fully in control yet the deepest of your mechanisms and the

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deepest of your mechanisms and the deepest of your mechanisms and the deepest of your brain are at work right deepest of your brain are at work right deepest of your brain are at work right now and because you are doing it you are now and because you are doing it you are now and because you are doing it you are connecting with those connecting with those connecting with those mechanisms that's the way we learn to mechanisms that's the way we learn to mechanisms that's the way we learn to gain control over these mechanisms and gain control over these mechanisms and gain control over these mechanisms and you're still without breathing even you're still without breathing even you're still without breathing even normally you you you would die like yeah normally you you you would die like yeah normally you you you would die like yeah breathing breathing you're breathing breathing you're breathing breathing you're peaceful you're completely in control peaceful you're completely in control peaceful you're completely in control over your parasympathetic nervous system over your parasympathetic nervous system over your parasympathetic nervous system which is deep autonomic nervous system which is deep autonomic nervous system which is deep autonomic nervous system level and you are in control right now level and you are in control right now level and you are in control right now this is where trauma is starting to this is where trauma is starting to this is where trauma is starting to release five 4 3 2 1 now you take a full release five 4 3 2 1 now you take a full release five 4 3 2 1 now you take a full breath breath breath in hold it and press it to your head in hold it and press it to your head in hold it and press it to your head press it to your head press it to your press it to your head press it to your press it to your head press it to your head head head this is this is this is subliminal cerebral spinal fluid to your

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subliminal cerebral spinal fluid to your subliminal cerebral spinal fluid to your head it's flushing in and all brain 100% head it's flushing in and all brain 100% head it's flushing in and all brain 100% neural Activity 3 2 1 let it go good if we go into a next round you will good if we go into a next round you will good if we go into a next round you will be able to go say for two minutes be able to go say for two minutes be able to go say for two minutes without breathing then 2 and 1/2 minutes without breathing then 2 and 1/2 minutes without breathing then 2 and 1/2 minutes then 3 then 3 then 3 minutes after exhalation minutes after exhalation minutes after exhalation it is it cannot be something else than a it is it cannot be something else than a it is it cannot be something else than a regaining a control deeper than ever regaining a control deeper than ever regaining a control deeper than ever before thought possible and this is what before thought possible and this is what before thought possible and this is what we have shown this is where the bacteria we have shown this is where the bacteria we have shown this is where the bacteria suddenly had no suddenly had no suddenly had no chance the virus has no chance why is it chance the virus has no chance why is it chance the virus has no chance why is it that the world doesn't know about this that the world doesn't know about this that the world doesn't know about this why is it that the scientific world is why is it that the scientific world is why is it that the scientific world is not examining this as a beneficial not examining this as a beneficial not examining this as a beneficial therapeutical power to battle all the therapeutical power to battle all the therapeutical power to battle all the diseases we got because aren't we built

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diseases we got because aren't we built diseases we got because aren't we built with an immune system that with an immune system that with an immune system that shoot Hal virus bacteria uh inflammation shoot Hal virus bacteria uh inflammation shoot Hal virus bacteria uh inflammation it is but it is never at way because it is but it is never at way because it is but it is never at way because this is deeper than our conditioned body this is deeper than our conditioned body this is deeper than our conditioned body and mind and this is the way to get a and mind and this is the way to get a and mind and this is the way to get a hold of that it feels so I feel very hold of that it feels so I feel very hold of that it feels so I feel very different in every in every sense of the different in every in every sense of the different in every in every sense of the word I feel when I came back into the word I feel when I came back into the word I feel when I came back into the room it all felt very it almost felt a room it all felt very it almost felt a room it all felt very it almost felt a little bit like I just woken up but it little bit like I just woken up but it little bit like I just woken up but it also I was a little you know it was a also I was a little you know it was a also I was a little you know it was a little bit of it was very peaceful little bit of it was very peaceful little bit of it was very peaceful peaceful and I was very um when I came peaceful and I was very um when I came peaceful and I was very um when I came back into the room I felt very focused back into the room I felt very focused back into the room I felt very focused nice I felt like I this is the last nice I felt like I this is the last nice I felt like I this is the last study I did with 540 people in Australia study I did with 540 people in Australia study I did with 540 people in Australia it shows uh that this uh um this uh it shows uh that this uh um this uh it shows uh that this uh um this uh method is compared to meditation and method is compared to meditation and method is compared to meditation and mindfulness Works a whole lot better how mindfulness Works a whole lot better how mindfulness Works a whole lot better how did you learn this where did you learn did you learn this where did you learn did you learn this where did you learn this by intuition you remember the

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this by intuition you remember the this by intuition you remember the mother who made me uh mother who made me uh mother who made me uh uh become a missionary become a seeker uh become a missionary become a seeker uh become a missionary become a seeker and then I found the cold water what and then I found the cold water what and then I found the cold water what does the cold water do first time you go does the cold water do first time you go does the cold water do first time you go into cold into cold into cold water you learn to breathe deep and that water you learn to breathe deep and that water you learn to breathe deep and that makes all the change at a certain moment makes all the change at a certain moment makes all the change at a certain moment I became aware that if I was breathing I became aware that if I was breathing I became aware that if I was breathing deeper slowly and deep slowly and deep I deeper slowly and deep slowly and deep I deeper slowly and deep slowly and deep I was able to endure the cold much longer was able to endure the cold much longer was able to endure the cold much longer that means that if we go into deeper that means that if we go into deeper that means that if we go into deeper breathing we are able to activate deeper breathing we are able to activate deeper breathing we are able to activate deeper mechanisms that are able to make us a mechanisms that are able to make us a mechanisms that are able to make us a lot stronger and that translates to life lot stronger and that translates to life lot stronger and that translates to life yeah translates to everyday life I want yeah translates to everyday life I want yeah translates to everyday life I want to get on to the cold water which is the to get on to the cold water which is the to get on to the cold water which is the sort of second pillar of the Wim Hof sort of second pillar of the Wim Hof sort of second pillar of the Wim Hof method but the third pillar I find method but the third pillar I find method but the third pillar I find really interesting as well which is the really interesting as well which is the really interesting as well which is the power of the Mind exactly what do you power of the Mind exactly what do you power of the Mind exactly what do you mean by this the power of the mind mean by this the power of the mind

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mean by this the power of the mind you're telling me that I can do things you're telling me that I can do things you're telling me that I can do things to my mind to make my mind stronger and to my mind to make my mind stronger and to my mind to make my mind stronger and more resilient oh yes oh yes what do you more resilient oh yes oh yes what do you more resilient oh yes oh yes what do you mean by the power of the Mind the first mean by the power of the Mind the first mean by the power of the Mind the first of all we just recently did this new of all we just recently did this new of all we just recently did this new study it's coming out now um it's into study it's coming out now um it's into study it's coming out now um it's into submitting and they did it with 540 submitting and they did it with 540 submitting and they did it with 540 people so meditation and mindfulness is people so meditation and mindfulness is people so meditation and mindfulness is about the mind isn't it to bring anxiety about the mind isn't it to bring anxiety about the mind isn't it to bring anxiety down to bring stress down this method down to bring stress down this method down to bring stress down this method works better than mindfulness and works better than mindfulness and works better than mindfulness and meditation which is in the corporate meditation which is in the corporate meditation which is in the corporate world but also in the wellness industry world but also in the wellness industry world but also in the wellness industry uh overall and also therapeutically in uh overall and also therapeutically in uh overall and also therapeutically in the health Mental Health Care uh yeah the health Mental Health Care uh yeah the health Mental Health Care uh yeah systems uh being accept accepted and uh systems uh being accept accepted and uh systems uh being accept accepted and uh implemented and used as a therap implemented and used as a therap implemented and used as a therap therapeutical means so this works better

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therapeutical means so this works better therapeutical means so this works better uh the stress resilience goes way up uh the stress resilience goes way up uh the stress resilience goes way up stress experience goes way down and the stress experience goes way down and the stress experience goes way down and the cognitive awareness goes also way up is cognitive awareness goes also way up is cognitive awareness goes also way up is what you just said and uh this was only what you just said and uh this was only what you just said and uh this was only one round imagine if you do four rounds one round imagine if you do four rounds one round imagine if you do four rounds you will go so deep that's yeah you will go so deep that's yeah you will go so deep that's yeah unprecedent enter deep where you will go unprecedent enter deep where you will go unprecedent enter deep where you will go and things can come to the surface never and things can come to the surface never and things can come to the surface never been stashed away you never knew of or been stashed away you never knew of or been stashed away you never knew of or we're not aware of at all this is all we're not aware of at all this is all we're not aware of at all this is all blocking our blocking our blocking our awareness and now when it's getting out awareness and now when it's getting out awareness and now when it's getting out of the way then suddenly our awareness of the way then suddenly our awareness of the way then suddenly our awareness becomes bigger brighter nicer more flow becomes bigger brighter nicer more flow becomes bigger brighter nicer more flow more receptive more sharper clearer and more receptive more sharper clearer and more receptive more sharper clearer and all and uh that all and uh that all and uh that that is part of a system that suddenly

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that is part of a system that suddenly that is part of a system that suddenly is able to override our is able to override our is able to override our conditioning so our conditioning is a conditioning so our conditioning is a conditioning so our conditioning is a conditioning wherein deeper mechanisms conditioning wherein deeper mechanisms conditioning wherein deeper mechanisms are not really at work but we are able are not really at work but we are able are not really at work but we are able to function in this Society system Etc to function in this Society system Etc to function in this Society system Etc but not necessarily we are connected but not necessarily we are connected but not necessarily we are connected with the depth of our selves and when with the depth of our selves and when with the depth of our selves and when trauma happens or emotion start to be trauma happens or emotion start to be trauma happens or emotion start to be not nice we don't know what to do with not nice we don't know what to do with not nice we don't know what to do with that now the power of the mind is very that now the power of the mind is very that now the power of the mind is very simple through doing this you learn to simple through doing this you learn to simple through doing this you learn to override to create a different override to create a different override to create a different conditioned mind and body conditioned mind and body conditioned mind and body relationship and suddenly opens up a new relationship and suddenly opens up a new relationship and suddenly opens up a new terrain a new capacity in the brain to terrain a new capacity in the brain to terrain a new capacity in the brain to connect with and that is connect with and that is connect with and that is interoception interoception interoception interoception interoception interoception interoception interception and and with interoception interception and and with interoception interception and and with that we suddenly learn to that we suddenly learn to that we suddenly learn to control uh and to command our bodies a

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control uh and to command our bodies a control uh and to command our bodies a vessel of our emotions of our sensations vessel of our emotions of our sensations vessel of our emotions of our sensations of or whatever we experience that's our of or whatever we experience that's our of or whatever we experience that's our body but when it feels bad we don't know body but when it feels bad we don't know body but when it feels bad we don't know what to do and now we found a way to go what to do and now we found a way to go what to do and now we found a way to go past that conditioned State and we found past that conditioned State and we found past that conditioned State and we found a new way in the brain and get a hold of a new way in the brain and get a hold of a new way in the brain and get a hold of that which is there naturally to control that which is there naturally to control that which is there naturally to control control whatever is going wrong to control whatever is going wrong to control whatever is going wrong to re-regulate it to rebalance it to reset re-regulate it to rebalance it to reset re-regulate it to rebalance it to reset it to make our bad feelings emotions uh it to make our bad feelings emotions uh it to make our bad feelings emotions uh disease Etc make it go away in our disease Etc make it go away in our disease Etc make it go away in our Command that is the power of the mind Command that is the power of the mind Command that is the power of the mind which is a natural capacity of ours which is a natural capacity of ours which is a natural capacity of ours which should be revealed past uh the which should be revealed past uh the which should be revealed past uh the system way of thinking and be brought system way of thinking and be brought system way of thinking and be brought into SE secondary school or or even when into SE secondary school or or even when into SE secondary school or or even when kids are very young that they are able

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kids are very young that they are able kids are very young that they are able to depict their own happiness strength to depict their own happiness strength to depict their own happiness strength and health is part of the building up and health is part of the building up and health is part of the building up the power of the Mind the power of the Mind the power of the Mind becoming stepping into personal becoming stepping into personal becoming stepping into personal responsibility and stepping away from responsibility and stepping away from responsibility and stepping away from victimhood yes because victimhood is no victimhood yes because victimhood is no victimhood yes because victimhood is no longer needed longer needed longer needed responsibility is there where we have responsibility is there where we have responsibility is there where we have the ability to respond and this is these the ability to respond and this is these the ability to respond and this is these are the tools then suddenly we feel we are the tools then suddenly we feel we are the tools then suddenly we feel we got the stair wheel in our hand how do got the stair wheel in our hand how do got the stair wheel in our hand how do you train someone though to stop being a you train someone though to stop being a you train someone though to stop being a victim in their own life in one in one victim in their own life in one in one victim in their own life in one in one session how just do this breathing yeah session how just do this breathing yeah session how just do this breathing yeah and then uh we go into the ice birth and then uh we go into the ice birth and then uh we go into the ice birth yeah they suddenly feel yeah they suddenly feel yeah they suddenly feel power sorry that I'm yelling you can power sorry that I'm yelling you can power sorry that I'm yelling you can yell yeah it's power people feel the yell yeah it's power people feel the yell yeah it's power people feel the being silent in that ice bath oh being silent in that ice bath oh being silent in that ice bath oh overcoming all that stress and suddenly overcoming all that stress and suddenly overcoming all that stress and suddenly feel that they are on top of it and they

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feel that they are on top of it and they feel that they are on top of it and they are suddenly able to go past this are suddenly able to go past this are suddenly able to go past this concept of this dangerous cold power concept of this dangerous cold power concept of this dangerous cold power energy coming to No Control this anxiety energy coming to No Control this anxiety energy coming to No Control this anxiety is suddenly they got a halt complete is suddenly they got a halt complete is suddenly they got a halt complete halt over that and with that comes that halt over that and with that comes that halt over that and with that comes that Paradigm that always thought of that to Paradigm that always thought of that to Paradigm that always thought of that to be impossible to control Suddenly It's a be impossible to control Suddenly It's a be impossible to control Suddenly It's a piece of cake that that is then turning piece of cake that that is then turning piece of cake that that is then turning into a a a domino effect a Cascade of uh into a a a domino effect a Cascade of uh into a a a domino effect a Cascade of uh uh feelings of hey if I can do that I uh feelings of hey if I can do that I uh feelings of hey if I can do that I can do that I can do that I can do can do that I can do that I can do can do that I can do that I can do that so you can build personal that so you can build personal that so you can build personal responsibility by taking control of the responsibility by taking control of the responsibility by taking control of the cold and not oh absolutely and in just cold and not oh absolutely and in just cold and not oh absolutely and in just one day okay well guess what whim one day okay well guess what whim one day okay well guess what whim upstairs I have two ice baths I've upstairs I have two ice baths I've upstairs I have two ice baths I've always been bad with the cold always always been bad with the cold always always been bad with the cold always it's a story I've told myself for my it's a story I've told myself for my it's a story I've told myself for my entire life so seeing as you're here and entire life so seeing as you're here and entire life so seeing as you're here and seeing as I just happened to have two seeing as I just happened to have two seeing as I just happened to have two ice baths

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ice baths ice baths upstairs could we go upstairs and get in upstairs could we go upstairs and get in upstairs could we go upstairs and get in those ice baths and you can teach me how those ice baths and you can teach me how those ice baths and you can teach me how to master the cold so the cold no longer to master the cold so the cold no longer to master the cold so the cold no longer Masters Masters Masters me follow me on this I'm I'm just a a me follow me on this I'm I'm just a a me follow me on this I'm I'm just a a brother of another mother in this yeah brother of another mother in this yeah brother of another mother in this yeah we are like family family people have we are like family family people have we are like family family people have the capacity to transmit their energy M the capacity to transmit their energy M the capacity to transmit their energy M it's logical it's it's nothing woa it's it's logical it's it's nothing woa it's it's logical it's it's nothing woa it's real and you will feel it's real today real and you will feel it's real today real and you will feel it's real today here in the ice just follow me there in here in the ice just follow me there in here in the ice just follow me there in and very soon you take the reins over and very soon you take the reins over and very soon you take the reins over you you you yourself let's do it okay okay so when we've got uh two ice okay okay so when we've got uh two ice baths here is there a certain baths here is there a certain baths here is there a certain temperature they need to be does it temperature they need to be does it temperature they need to be does it matter no this this is the right temp matter no this this is the right temp matter no this this is the right temp temperature very cold

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cold yeah so so so so talk me through what yeah so so so so talk me through what yeah so so so so talk me through what we're going to do and how we're going to we're going to do and how we're going to we're going to do and how we're going to prepare is there a way I I want to do prepare is there a way I I want to do prepare is there a way I I want to do one minute horse St with you I've not one minute horse St with you I've not one minute horse St with you I've not done this before so you need to coach me done this before so you need to coach me done this before so you need to coach me through through through yeah your voice I want to hear you yeah why are we doing this because you're why are we doing this because you're going to go into the ice and then you going to go into the ice and then you going to go into the ice and then you feel why okay because it's feeling got feel why okay because it's feeling got feel why okay because it's feeling got to go into your feeling now okay so to go into your feeling now okay so to go into your feeling now okay so command your body to feel command your body to feel command your body to feel strong mhm yeah mhm we bring happiness strong mhm yeah mhm we bring happiness strong mhm yeah mhm we bring happiness strength and health to the whole wide strength and health to the whole wide strength and health to the whole wide world MH yes mhm okay command yourself world MH yes mhm okay command yourself world MH yes mhm okay command yourself to be strong this is a to see if you are able to commence your to see if you are able to commence your body from the inside to be strong MH

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body from the inside to be strong MH body from the inside to be strong MH right mhm so let's go in mhm right mhm so let's go in mhm right mhm so let's go in mhm sorry stay with your breath we are sorry stay with your breath we are sorry stay with your breath we are friends come on we show the world from friends come on we show the world from friends come on we show the world from the inside is the power let the body do the inside is the power let the body do the inside is the power let the body do what the body is capable of long out what the body is capable of long out what the body is capable of long out breath long out breath long out breath long out breath long out you're doing good look breath long out you're doing good look breath long out you're doing good look at hey you didn't think this one like at hey you didn't think this one like at hey you didn't think this one like this yet you're doing this yet you're doing this yet you're doing good yeah it let your body do what the good yeah it let your body do what the good yeah it let your body do what the body is capable of it takes about 20 body is capable of it takes about 20 body is capable of it takes about 20 seconds more then then your body is seconds more then then your body is seconds more then then your body is adapting from the inside means that the adapting from the inside means that the adapting from the inside means that the hormone system suddenly has found a way hormone system suddenly has found a way hormone system suddenly has found a way to oppose the to oppose the to oppose the impact and that makes your body strong

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impact and that makes your body strong impact and that makes your body strong that makes your immune system on that that makes your immune system on that that makes your immune system on that makes your emotions being within your makes your emotions being within your makes your emotions being within your control the deepest part of the brain control the deepest part of the brain control the deepest part of the brain now is within because you are doing it now is within because you are doing it now is within because you are doing it is within your command and that is is within your command and that is is within your command and that is reestablishing natural power of us this reestablishing natural power of us this reestablishing natural power of us this is what we are going to bring to the is what we are going to bring to the is what we are going to bring to the whole wide of world because we love the whole wide of world because we love the whole wide of world because we love the people and we bring happiness strength people and we bring happiness strength people and we bring happiness strength and health no it's power this is power and health no it's power this is power and health no it's power this is power but silent but silent but silent nice how simple it can be I'm not a nice how simple it can be I'm not a nice how simple it can be I'm not a sorcerer or something or a magician life sorcerer or something or a magician life sorcerer or something or a magician life is Magic yes let's get to life look at is Magic yes let's get to life look at is Magic yes let's get to life look at he was afraid of the cold hey the cold he was afraid of the cold hey the cold he was afraid of the cold hey the cold is not mine I'm got a warm body it's

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is not mine I'm got a warm body it's is not mine I'm got a warm body it's just not mine look at them now you can't just not mine look at them now you can't just not mine look at them now you can't buy buy buy this you can obtain this happiness this you can obtain this happiness this you can obtain this happiness health and strength you can obtain it health and strength you can obtain it health and strength you can obtain it you just go to the cold and the cold you just go to the cold and the cold you just go to the cold and the cold doesn't come to you did you have done it doesn't come to you did you have done it doesn't come to you did you have done it yeah yeah I love it what what time of yeah yeah I love it what what time of yeah yeah I love it what what time of the day do you do it in the in the the day do you do it in the in the the day do you do it in the in the morning in the morning and how long morning in the morning and how long morning in the morning and how long would you sit in here in the morning would you sit in here in the morning would you sit in here in the morning sometimes I stay I had a birthday when I sometimes I stay I had a birthday when I sometimes I stay I had a birthday when I became 60 I thought I'm going to show became 60 I thought I'm going to show became 60 I thought I'm going to show the world that I'm [ __ ] strong sorry the world that I'm [ __ ] strong sorry the world that I'm [ __ ] strong sorry for the for the for the French but I'm going to stay 60 Minutes French but I'm going to stay 60 Minutes French but I'm going to stay 60 Minutes in the in the icy water and I had happy in the in the icy water and I had happy in the in the icy water and I had happy times and 61 I did 61 minutes 62 I did times and 61 I did 61 minutes 62 I did times and 61 I did 61 minutes 62 I did 62 minutes 63 I had 63 and when I became 62 minutes 63 I had 63 and when I became 62 minutes 63 I had 63 and when I became 64 I thought that's boring no going to 64 I thought that's boring no going to 64 I thought that's boring no going to do this do this do this anymore yeah you your nature is on

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anymore yeah you your nature is on anymore yeah you your nature is on inside and that's the whole message and inside and that's the whole message and inside and that's the whole message and with that comes the a strengthened with that comes the a strengthened with that comes the a strengthened immune system a strengthened immune system a strengthened immune system a strengthened cardiovascular system cardiovascular cardiovascular system cardiovascular cardiovascular system cardiovascular related issues is killer number one in related issues is killer number one in related issues is killer number one in our our society through this it's society through this it's society through this it's gone this the way to tackle it gone this the way to tackle it gone this the way to tackle it connection with the depth of the brain connection with the depth of the brain connection with the depth of the brain the deepest part of the brain and if you the deepest part of the brain and if you the deepest part of the brain and if you are able to go to the deepest part where are able to go to the deepest part where are able to go to the deepest part where else can you not else can you not else can you not go so if I did this once a day you think go so if I did this once a day you think go so if I did this once a day you think I'd be better equipped to deal with the I'd be better equipped to deal with the I'd be better equipped to deal with the stress of work and the stress of Life stress of work and the stress of Life stress of work and the stress of Life yeah of yeah of yeah of course man and you don't need to go this course man and you don't need to go this course man and you don't need to go this long long long into an eyes bath two three minutes is into an eyes bath two three minutes is into an eyes bath two three minutes is enough I we''ve been in six minutes it enough I we''ve been in six minutes it enough I we''ve been in six minutes it it doesn't feel cold anymore though I it doesn't feel cold anymore though I it doesn't feel cold anymore though I actually feel a bit warm funly enough my actually feel a bit warm funly enough my actually feel a bit warm funly enough my legs feel like they're warm but I don't

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legs feel like they're warm but I don't legs feel like they're warm but I don't know if that's just from my body know if that's just from my body know if that's just from my body shutting down or something shutting down or something shutting down or something yeah okay I think it now there time yeah okay I think it now there time yeah okay I think it now there time enough come louder you did it come on down on down amazing thank you so much it was so amazing thank you so much it was so amazing thank you so much it was so interesting the first um the first 20 interesting the first um the first 20 interesting the first um the first 20 seconds of that process are so seconds of that process are so seconds of that process are so fascinating because I had to conf a lot fascinating because I had to conf a lot fascinating because I had to conf a lot of things I had to confront a lot of of things I had to confront a lot of of things I had to confront a lot of natural reactions that told me to stop natural reactions that told me to stop natural reactions that told me to stop to get out to you know my body went into to get out to you know my body went into to get out to you know my body went into like a phase of panic and it's funny like a phase of panic and it's funny like a phase of panic and it's funny because as I reflect on that feeling of because as I reflect on that feeling of because as I reflect on that feeling of like Panic it was like a wall and it was like Panic it was like a wall and it was like Panic it was like a wall and it was a wall that I had to make a decision a wall that I had to make a decision a wall that I had to make a decision about going through or going backwards about going through or going backwards about going through or going backwards and I say this because I think in a lot and I say this because I think in a lot and I say this because I think in a lot of Our Lives we're surrounded by these of Our Lives we're surrounded by these of Our Lives we're surrounded by these walls and it's in many of our Lives walls and it's in many of our Lives walls and it's in many of our Lives actually the walls kind of close in on actually the walls kind of close in on actually the walls kind of close in on us and what I learned in the first sort us and what I learned in the first sort us and what I learned in the first sort of 20 seconds of that process was that of 20 seconds of that process was that of 20 seconds of that process was that that wall was something I created myself

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that wall was something I created myself that wall was something I created myself it was a figment of my imagination and it was a figment of my imagination and it was a figment of my imagination and as I sat there for what five six as I sat there for what five six as I sat there for what five six minutes my body almost said to me it was minutes my body almost said to me it was minutes my body almost said to me it was like sorry I was lying I was lying to like sorry I was lying I was lying to like sorry I was lying I was lying to you something was lying because five six you something was lying because five six you something was lying because five six minutes in I'm completely fine yeah but minutes in I'm completely fine yeah but minutes in I'm completely fine yeah but in that first 20 seconds some Panic in that first 20 seconds some Panic in that first 20 seconds some Panic signal went off and told me to retreat signal went off and told me to retreat signal went off and told me to retreat and so I just find that so fascinating and so I just find that so fascinating and so I just find that so fascinating it's like there's something about it's like there's something about it's like there's something about breaking through a wall breaking through a wall breaking through a wall mhm that you once really believed was mhm that you once really believed was mhm that you once really believed was real that illuminates your mind to the real that illuminates your mind to the real that illuminates your mind to the what other kind of self-limiting beliefs what other kind of self-limiting beliefs what other kind of self-limiting beliefs you're currently constrained by in you're currently constrained by in you're currently constrained by in everyday life you know I could I everyday life you know I could I everyday life you know I could I couldn't say it better uh self-limiting couldn't say it better uh self-limiting couldn't say it better uh self-limiting uh belief uh beliefs coming in at a uh belief uh beliefs coming in at a uh belief uh beliefs coming in at a certain moment become blockages become certain moment become blockages become certain moment become blockages become patterns become condition and that patterns become condition and that patterns become condition and that conditioning uh withholds us from going conditioning uh withholds us from going conditioning uh withholds us from going through uh things when they come to our

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through uh things when they come to our through uh things when they come to our lives because they are too stressful lives because they are too stressful lives because they are too stressful they are uh uh mirroring that what we uh they are uh uh mirroring that what we uh they are uh uh mirroring that what we uh through our self- believing uh limiting through our self- believing uh limiting through our self- believing uh limiting uh way of thinking have created then we uh way of thinking have created then we uh way of thinking have created then we see it outside and we don't go in it we see it outside and we don't go in it we see it outside and we don't go in it we don't go through it anymore and thus we don't go through it anymore and thus we don't go through it anymore and thus we don't find uh uh these things in our don't find uh uh these things in our don't find uh uh these things in our lives anymore to uh lives anymore to uh lives anymore to uh as life's lessons it's no longer there as life's lessons it's no longer there as life's lessons it's no longer there and and there we limit ourselves and and and there we limit ourselves and and and there we limit ourselves and become narrowed so what we have found become narrowed so what we have found become narrowed so what we have found now through these uh practices that we now through these uh practices that we now through these uh practices that we are able to command our bodies so much are able to command our bodies so much are able to command our bodies so much better to go through the self-limiting better to go through the self-limiting better to go through the self-limiting self H disc conditioning because in most self H disc conditioning because in most self H disc conditioning because in most of the time it is uh that we get of the time it is uh that we get of the time it is uh that we get schooled that we have to follow rules schooled that we have to follow rules schooled that we have to follow rules ethics morals Etc at a certain moment we ethics morals Etc at a certain moment we ethics morals Etc at a certain moment we got a belief system that is not

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got a belief system that is not got a belief system that is not necessarily who we are in the depth and necessarily who we are in the depth and necessarily who we are in the depth and this is where this Society is this is where this Society is this is where this Society is suffering uh big time of having no suffering uh big time of having no suffering uh big time of having no connection with this invisible purpose connection with this invisible purpose connection with this invisible purpose of ours which is there but we it's of ours which is there but we it's of ours which is there but we it's behind the wall and simply through doing behind the wall and simply through doing behind the wall and simply through doing this you see you have the power to go this you see you have the power to go this you see you have the power to go through these walls you have the power through these walls you have the power through these walls you have the power to uh become exactly who you are and to uh become exactly who you are and to uh become exactly who you are and what you are that is what the C is what you are that is what the C is what you are that is what the C is showing it doesn't show what what you showing it doesn't show what what you showing it doesn't show what what you think it shows you who you are and what think it shows you who you are and what think it shows you who you are and what you are and from there you will see that you are and from there you will see that you are and from there you will see that the walls in your life of whatever the walls in your life of whatever the walls in your life of whatever invisibly what stalking you will invisibly what stalking you will invisibly what stalking you will disappear is this in part why it seems disappear is this in part why it seems disappear is this in part why it seems like a lot of people in society right

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like a lot of people in society right like a lot of people in society right now are choosing discomfort because you now are choosing discomfort because you now are choosing discomfort because you know we've got kind of gone one way as a know we've got kind of gone one way as a know we've got kind of gone one way as a society we've gone to comfort and then society we've gone to comfort and then society we've gone to comfort and then you've got this counter movement of you've got this counter movement of you've got this counter movement of people that are now doing Ma ultra people that are now doing Ma ultra people that are now doing Ma ultra marathon runs and they're cold plunging marathon runs and they're cold plunging marathon runs and they're cold plunging and they're they're doing things to put and they're they're doing things to put and they're they're doing things to put themselves in intentional discomfort it themselves in intentional discomfort it themselves in intentional discomfort it seems like it's for me it's I've seems like it's for me it's I've seems like it's for me it's I've observed it like a counter movement yes observed it like a counter movement yes observed it like a counter movement yes and it is and and it is but H the the and it is and and it is but H the the and it is and and it is but H the the thing is H now that we are showing in thing is H now that we are showing in thing is H now that we are showing in signs with the professor Vibe of divar signs with the professor Vibe of divar signs with the professor Vibe of divar mostly in Auto music uh that we found a mostly in Auto music uh that we found a mostly in Auto music uh that we found a key and the key is the innate capacity key and the key is the innate capacity key and the key is the innate capacity of ours to command our bodies much of ours to command our bodies much of ours to command our bodies much better in our emotions because in the better in our emotions because in the better in our emotions because in the end it's not about going into the end it's not about going into the end it's not about going into the extremes it's about handling our emotion extremes it's about handling our emotion extremes it's about handling our emotion and to feel that we are on top of it no and to feel that we are on top of it no and to feel that we are on top of it no matter what and that being able to pass

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matter what and that being able to pass matter what and that being able to pass on to our on to our on to our children the way children the way children the way reactionary it reactionary it reactionary it all we go into these extremes and all all we go into these extremes and all all we go into these extremes and all that is a that is a reaction of our uh that is a that is a reaction of our uh that is a that is a reaction of our uh massive Paradigm encountering too much massive Paradigm encountering too much massive Paradigm encountering too much comfort now hey let's go to that but comfort now hey let's go to that but comfort now hey let's go to that but that's reactionary human is it that we that's reactionary human is it that we that's reactionary human is it that we actually uh are here to uh learn to have actually uh are here to uh learn to have actually uh are here to uh learn to have a uh Hal absolute Hal over our emotion a uh Hal absolute Hal over our emotion a uh Hal absolute Hal over our emotion which is directly connected to our which is directly connected to our which is directly connected to our purpose because from the beginning or uh purpose because from the beginning or uh purpose because from the beginning or uh it the problem the conflict is the it the problem the conflict is the it the problem the conflict is the conflict with our soul and our soul is conflict with our soul and our soul is conflict with our soul and our soul is about when we realize our soul and the about when we realize our soul and the about when we realize our soul and the unlimited power of the of the Mind unlimited power of the of the Mind unlimited power of the of the Mind serving us to find realization of that

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serving us to find realization of that serving us to find realization of that soul and that is for every person unique soul and that is for every person unique soul and that is for every person unique what are the other things that are like what are the other things that are like what are the other things that are like Staples of your daily routine eat once a Staples of your daily routine eat once a Staples of your daily routine eat once a day you eat once a day yeah okay so you day you eat once a day yeah okay so you day you eat once a day yeah okay so you you wake so can you run me through a a you wake so can you run me through a a you wake so can you run me through a a perfect whm Hof day yeah in the morning perfect whm Hof day yeah in the morning perfect whm Hof day yeah in the morning uh I wake up uh next to my wife and my uh I wake up uh next to my wife and my uh I wake up uh next to my wife and my child the my youngest is uh is six and child the my youngest is uh is six and child the my youngest is uh is six and actually there's a new one coming I'm 65 actually there's a new one coming I'm 65 actually there's a new one coming I'm 65 but hey man I'm alive I'm sorry and I but hey man I'm alive I'm sorry and I but hey man I'm alive I'm sorry and I got a yeah I found a younger woman eight got a yeah I found a younger woman eight got a yeah I found a younger woman eight and a half years ago we are very happy and a half years ago we are very happy and a half years ago we are very happy together and she says don't talk about together and she says don't talk about together and she says don't talk about it it and I'm sorry but I'm very happy my and I'm sorry but I'm very happy my and I'm sorry but I'm very happy my oldest son is 42 and my youngest is oldest son is 42 and my youngest is oldest son is 42 and my youngest is going to be zero very soon so that's going to be zero very soon so that's going to be zero very soon so that's life I wake up and I I look at my

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life I wake up and I I look at my life I wake up and I I look at my beloveds next to me still sleeping and beloveds next to me still sleeping and beloveds next to me still sleeping and wow like Angels what time did you wake wow like Angels what time did you wake wow like Angels what time did you wake up 5:00 5:00 halfast 5 uh halfast 4 up 5:00 5:00 halfast 5 uh halfast 4 up 5:00 5:00 halfast 5 uh halfast 4 around there why so early that that is around there why so early that that is around there why so early that that is me now sometimes I just sleep until 9:00 me now sometimes I just sleep until 9:00 me now sometimes I just sleep until 9:00 okay it's okay it's okay it's I'm not really bound okay but uh uh time I'm not really bound okay but uh uh time I'm not really bound okay but uh uh time is serving me I'm not serving time in is serving me I'm not serving time in is serving me I'm not serving time in the morning I do my exercising a ritual the morning I do my exercising a ritual the morning I do my exercising a ritual and I like my coffee in the morning I and I like my coffee in the morning I and I like my coffee in the morning I start no sugar just coffee a little bit start no sugar just coffee a little bit start no sugar just coffee a little bit milk and milk and milk and nice what are those exercising nice what are those exercising nice what are those exercising routines you saw me doing the split I want to do a world record by the split I want to do a world record by the way in three third of August in Germany way in three third of August in Germany way in three third of August in Germany with 4,000 people doing this and do you

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with 4,000 people doing this and do you with 4,000 people doing this and do you use weights or anything yeah a yeah use use weights or anything yeah a yeah use use weights or anything yeah a yeah use weights before not okay I I did push-ups weights before not okay I I did push-ups weights before not okay I I did push-ups it's like weight yeah your own weight so it's like weight yeah your own weight so it's like weight yeah your own weight so you can do that or weights and uh uh I you can do that or weights and uh uh I you can do that or weights and uh uh I got a bar where normally you got put the got a bar where normally you got put the got a bar where normally you got put the weight on MH you do this it's about 10K weight on MH you do this it's about 10K weight on MH you do this it's about 10K yeah I make it Circle mhm like a stick yeah I make it Circle mhm like a stick yeah I make it Circle mhm like a stick if you do that 500 times it's you really go deep you go to your it's you really go deep you go to your pain I if I do exercises I I do it to pain I if I do exercises I I do it to pain I if I do exercises I I do it to the threshold of the threshold of the threshold of pain and then I overcome the pain and then I overcome the pain and then I overcome the pain then it's then it's okay that is pain then it's then it's okay that is pain then it's then it's okay that is body body body awareness that body awareness I want to awareness that body awareness I want to awareness that body awareness I want to know feel feel know feel feel know feel feel that I live not know feel that I I'm that I live not know feel that I I'm that I live not know feel that I I'm alive when's that first meal of the day

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alive when's that first meal of the day alive when's that first meal of the day uh later later in the day so no uh later later in the day so no uh later later in the day so no breakfast no no no no breakfast no lunch breakfast no no no no breakfast no lunch breakfast no no no no breakfast no lunch why no lunch because I I feel stuffed why no lunch because I I feel stuffed why no lunch because I I feel stuffed up I feel too much this is also part of up I feel too much this is also part of up I feel too much this is also part of conditioning I could also enjoy a very conditioning I could also enjoy a very conditioning I could also enjoy a very nice nice nice breakfast very nice breakfast is very breakfast very nice breakfast is very breakfast very nice breakfast is very nice you know with the sea and sitting nice you know with the sea and sitting nice you know with the sea and sitting there relax wow some eggs some this some there relax wow some eggs some this some there relax wow some eggs some this some that nice coffee hello how are you the that nice coffee hello how are you the that nice coffee hello how are you the newspaper or look at the phone it's newspaper or look at the phone it's newspaper or look at the phone it's enjoying life I I could do that but I I enjoying life I I could do that but I I enjoying life I I could do that but I I really enjoy the feeling that I'm really enjoy the feeling that I'm really enjoy the feeling that I'm fasting fasting fasting inside a little that that I'm going inside a little that that I'm going inside a little that that I'm going against like the cold if you go to the against like the cold if you go to the against like the cold if you go to the cold then the cold doesn't come to you cold then the cold doesn't come to you cold then the cold doesn't come to you yeah when when the appetite comes I just yeah when when the appetite comes I just yeah when when the appetite comes I just DeLay So you fast for you're doing some DeLay So you fast for you're doing some DeLay So you fast for you're doing some sort of intermittent fasting there as

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sort of intermittent fasting there as sort of intermittent fasting there as they call it you're you're going yeah they call it you're you're going yeah they call it you're you're going yeah but I I I did this since I was a young but I I I did this since I was a young but I I I did this since I was a young kid again intuition yeah intuition it's kid again intuition yeah intuition it's kid again intuition yeah intuition it's just how you felt yes because the just how you felt yes because the just how you felt yes because the external narrative is you got to have external narrative is you got to have external narrative is you got to have three meals a day maybe four meals a day three meals a day maybe four meals a day three meals a day maybe four meals a day you've got to have breakfast you know you've got to have breakfast you know you've got to have breakfast you know lunch dinner no no no yeah that's just lunch dinner no no no yeah that's just lunch dinner no no no yeah that's just just made up it's made just made up it's made just made up it's made up uh you should feel like any any up uh you should feel like any any up uh you should feel like any any animal in the world is not eating when animal in the world is not eating when animal in the world is not eating when it doesn't need to eat because it it doesn't need to eat because it it doesn't need to eat because it doesn't think it only eats when it feels doesn't think it only eats when it feels doesn't think it only eats when it feels and when it feels that it needs to eat and when it feels that it needs to eat and when it feels that it needs to eat his eyes become bigger becoming more his eyes become bigger becoming more his eyes become bigger becoming more alert adrenaline starts to run they alert adrenaline starts to run they alert adrenaline starts to run they become sharper they then all the systems become sharper they then all the systems become sharper they then all the systems are at work that is the way it it are at work that is the way it it are at work that is the way it it automatically exercises its all of body automatically exercises its all of body automatically exercises its all of body that's how I I live my life and I've that's how I I live my life and I've that's how I I live my life and I've always thought I was a bit strange but always thought I was a bit strange but always thought I was a bit strange but we're now at 1 p.m. I haven't eaten we're now at 1 p.m. I haven't eaten we're now at 1 p.m. I haven't eaten anything today sometimes I get a little anything today sometimes I get a little anything today sometimes I get a little bit later into the day I mean yesterday

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bit later into the day I mean yesterday bit later into the day I mean yesterday this week it's been 5 6 p.m. I think this week it's been 5 6 p.m. I think this week it's been 5 6 p.m. I think yesterday was 700 p.m. my first meal and yesterday was 700 p.m. my first meal and yesterday was 700 p.m. my first meal and I I I'm okay I I don't know what the you I I I'm okay I I don't know what the you I I I'm okay I I don't know what the you know but I yeah you enjoy life you enjoy know but I yeah you enjoy life you enjoy know but I yeah you enjoy life you enjoy the energies I focus better I have the energies I focus better I have the energies I focus better I have better conversations yeah yeah all that better conversations yeah yeah all that better conversations yeah yeah all that if you fast a little if you fast a little if you fast a little bit long and then you become sharper and bit long and then you become sharper and bit long and then you become sharper and it's a nice feeling once upon a time if it's a nice feeling once upon a time if it's a nice feeling once upon a time if you had a business idea it was you had a business idea it was you had a business idea it was exceptionally difficult to get going but exceptionally difficult to get going but exceptionally difficult to get going but now in the age of Shopify it is now in the age of Shopify it is now in the age of Shopify it is exceptionally easy as many of you will exceptionally easy as many of you will exceptionally easy as many of you will know Shopify are a sponsor of this know Shopify are a sponsor of this know Shopify are a sponsor of this podcast if you don't know Shopify it's podcast if you don't know Shopify it's podcast if you don't know Shopify it's an exceptionally simple web platform for an exceptionally simple web platform for an exceptionally simple web platform for anybody that's got an idea that wants to anybody that's got an idea that wants to anybody that's got an idea that wants to transact on a global scale so things transact on a global scale so things transact on a global scale so things like these conversation cards which we like these conversation cards which we like these conversation cards which we sell we've sold using Shopify and it sell we've sold using Shopify and it sell we've sold using Shopify and it only took us a couple of clicks to get only took us a couple of clicks to get only took us a couple of clicks to get going so why did we choose Shopify for a going so why did we choose Shopify for a going so why did we choose Shopify for a number of reasons but I think one of the

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to our kids and to feel bright bright to our kids and to feel bright bright and shiny in life but we don't because and shiny in life but we don't because and shiny in life but we don't because we have to do this do that take on we have to do this do that take on we have to do this do that take on stress and think about this think about stress and think about this think about stress and think about this think about that who did this whatever did this is that who did this whatever did this is that who did this whatever did this is is a massive Paradigm going on is a massive Paradigm going on is a massive Paradigm going on taking our en energetic bodies and with taking our en energetic bodies and with taking our en energetic bodies and with that our our emotions and with that our that our our emotions and with that our that our our emotions and with that our life force and and there it is the real life force and and there it is the real life force and and there it is the real philosophy serves that Paradigm where philosophy serves that Paradigm where philosophy serves that Paradigm where one becomes happy strong and healthy and one becomes happy strong and healthy and one becomes happy strong and healthy and is able to pass it on you're only good is able to pass it on you're only good is able to pass it on you're only good if you are able to be happy strong if you are able to be happy strong if you are able to be happy strong healthy inside and then pass it radiate healthy inside and then pass it radiate healthy inside and then pass it radiate that to that to that to others there you go past your ego and others there you go past your ego and others there you go past your ego and that we we we don't live that we survive that we we we don't live that we survive that we we we don't live that we survive in this Society we live in a competitive in this Society we live in a competitive in this Society we live in a competitive world we have all kinds of rules in this

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world we have all kinds of rules in this world we have all kinds of rules in this and that but do we really feel bright and that but do we really feel bright and that but do we really feel bright and and the top the best of ourselves and and the top the best of ourselves and and the top the best of ourselves are we able to give love in full are we able to give love in full are we able to give love in full conviction that it is good and to conviction that it is good and to conviction that it is good and to others are we there I don't think so and others are we there I don't think so and others are we there I don't think so and that is what we are going to bring when you say you need to know live in when you say you need to know live in your purpose how do I know what my your purpose how do I know what my your purpose how do I know what my purpose is do I have to go find it purpose is do I have to go find it purpose is do I have to go find it somewhere do I you know what just be somewhere do I you know what just be somewhere do I you know what just be happy strong and healthy rest is happy strong and healthy rest is happy strong and healthy rest is [ __ ] just be happy strong and [ __ ] just be happy strong and [ __ ] just be happy strong and healthy and purpose will follow yes that healthy and purpose will follow yes that healthy and purpose will follow yes that is the purpose the characteristics of is the purpose the characteristics of is the purpose the characteristics of purpose is not to be in conflict with purpose is not to be in conflict with purpose is not to be in conflict with your soul happy strong and heal your soul happy strong and heal your soul happy strong and heal healthy then you become happy strong and healthy then you become happy strong and healthy then you become happy strong and healthy you don't need to work for that healthy you don't need to work for that healthy you don't need to work for that so much a couple of exercises more than

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so much a couple of exercises more than so much a couple of exercises more than enough if I do my exercise and I'm not a enough if I do my exercise and I'm not a enough if I do my exercise and I'm not a whole day working out it's it's 10 whole day working out it's it's 10 whole day working out it's it's 10 minutes 15 minutes but I'm minutes 15 minutes but I'm minutes 15 minutes but I'm ready this morning because later I have ready this morning because later I have ready this morning because later I have a keynote speech and I got to go to the a keynote speech and I got to go to the a keynote speech and I got to go to the record label I got to meet somebody who record label I got to meet somebody who record label I got to meet somebody who is managing by government mid School of is managing by government mid School of is managing by government mid School of the England I got to meet them and and the England I got to meet them and and the England I got to meet them and and something else uh I I thought okay today something else uh I I thought okay today something else uh I I thought okay today I got to be ready so what I'm doing I I got to be ready so what I'm doing I I got to be ready so what I'm doing I breathe like a breathe like a breathe like a [ __ ] in there morning in [ __ ] in there morning in [ __ ] in there morning in bed and cleanse myself so deeply that bed and cleanse myself so deeply that bed and cleanse myself so deeply that I'm ready to take on anything that is I'm ready to take on anything that is I'm ready to take on anything that is coming and in that way I will absolutely coming and in that way I will absolutely coming and in that way I will absolutely serve and especially being with you serve and especially being with you serve and especially being with you which is a pleasure a great pleasure we which is a pleasure a great pleasure we which is a pleasure a great pleasure we are serving purpose right over here

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are serving purpose right over here are serving purpose right over here unmistakably straight wh we have a unmistakably straight wh we have a unmistakably straight wh we have a closing tradition on this podcast where closing tradition on this podcast where closing tradition on this podcast where the last guest leaves a question for the the last guest leaves a question for the the last guest leaves a question for the next guest and my last guest left a next guest and my last guest left a next guest and my last guest left a question for you that is inside the question for you that is inside the question for you that is inside the Diary of a CEO and the question that was Diary of a CEO and the question that was Diary of a CEO and the question that was left for you is what is one thing you can what is one thing you can do next week to prove to your friends or do next week to prove to your friends or do next week to prove to your friends or family that they matter to you more than family that they matter to you more than family that they matter to you more than your your work oh oh work like work 9 to5 is work work oh oh work like work 9 to5 is work work oh oh work like work 9 to5 is work because my work is my life my work is my because my work is my life my work is my because my work is my life my work is my mission and in the end it is not work I mission and in the end it is not work I mission and in the end it is not work I I feel all the to do that I feel all the to do that I feel all the to do that so next week more than my work to keep so next week more than my work to keep so next week more than my work to keep on what I'm doing right here right now

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on what I'm doing right here right now on what I'm doing right here right now do you believe in like work life balance do you believe in like work life balance do you believe in like work life balance you know people say work life balance you know people say work life balance you know people say work life balance you've got to yeah my wife is talking you've got to yeah my wife is talking you've got to yeah my wife is talking about that but I don't I don't feel that about that but I don't I don't feel that about that but I don't I don't feel that I feel I'm busy with my mission and with I feel I'm busy with my mission and with I feel I'm busy with my mission and with my daily life at the same time there is my daily life at the same time there is my daily life at the same time there is no work I have no night to five I think no work I have no night to five I think no work I have no night to five I think you have no night to5 do you know we you have no night to5 do you know we you have no night to5 do you know we depict our own realities I think our depict our own realities I think our depict our own realities I think our power is stronger than they made us power is stronger than they made us power is stronger than they made us think it is by which we have a power think it is by which we have a power think it is by which we have a power which is stronger than uh what is which is stronger than uh what is which is stronger than uh what is man-made coming to us we are stronger man-made coming to us we are stronger man-made coming to us we are stronger and that's why we go and uh we don't and that's why we go and uh we don't and that's why we go and uh we don't work you know yeah we work the game we work you know yeah we work the game we work you know yeah we work the game we work the society we work at all but hey work the society we work at all but hey work the society we work at all but hey it's not like 9 to5 and we got to obey it's not like 9 to5 and we got to obey it's not like 9 to5 and we got to obey and this and that we don't do that why and this and that we don't do that why and this and that we don't do that why you got a maybe you got a maybe you got a maybe unexplainable U genetical uh Power in

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unexplainable U genetical uh Power in unexplainable U genetical uh Power in you that may made you into who you are you that may made you into who you are you that may made you into who you are what and what you are right now and you what and what you are right now and you what and what you are right now and you got a great responsibility but also that got a great responsibility but also that got a great responsibility but also that great ability to respond and that is great ability to respond and that is great ability to respond and that is more than 9 to5 that person this is my more than 9 to5 that person this is my more than 9 to5 that person this is my last question today that person who is last question today that person who is last question today that person who is in that N9 to5 and they are struggling in that N9 to5 and they are struggling in that N9 to5 and they are struggling and they are trapped and they have been and they are trapped and they have been and they are trapped and they have been conditioned by school University their conditioned by school University their conditioned by school University their parents desires who were also you know parents desires who were also you know parents desires who were also you know their parents were also conditioned in their parents were also conditioned in their parents were also conditioned in that that way what would what would you say to way what would what would you say to way what would what would you say to those people as a closing message to those people as a closing message to those people as a closing message to those people oh yeah guys just do what those people oh yeah guys just do what those people oh yeah guys just do what Stephen just Stephen just Stephen just showed you thought you were not able to showed you thought you were not able to showed you thought you were not able to I cannot do what Iceman is doing or what I cannot do what Iceman is doing or what I cannot do what Iceman is doing or what Stephen has got or what he is doing and Stephen has got or what he is doing and Stephen has got or what he is doing and I cannot man you can do that too the

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I cannot man you can do that too the I cannot man you can do that too the most precious of all the greatest wealth most precious of all the greatest wealth most precious of all the greatest wealth you can Embrace is your happiness your you can Embrace is your happiness your you can Embrace is your happiness your strength and your health and you can get strength and your health and you can get strength and your health and you can get it every day it every day it every day anybody that's you that's anybody that's you that's anybody that's you that's you it's love it's you it's love it's you it's love it's powerful whim thank you thank you so powerful whim thank you thank you so powerful whim thank you thank you so much for your time you've been a a much for your time you've been a a much for your time you've been a a legend and an icon and inspiration to me legend and an icon and inspiration to me legend and an icon and inspiration to me to my partner Melanie um and to so many to my partner Melanie um and to so many to my partner Melanie um and to so many people I mean all these people written people I mean all these people written people I mean all these people written on the front of the book I actually on the front of the book I actually on the front of the book I actually think every single one of these people think every single one of these people think every single one of these people I've sat down here with from Joe to Ben I've sat down here with from Joe to Ben I've sat down here with from Joe to Ben to be to Russell all of them and uh Russ to be to Russell all of them and uh Russ to be to Russell all of them and uh Russ oh Fern I've sat with her as well and oh Fern I've sat with her as well and oh Fern I've sat with her as well and gabble and James Nester ah all seven gabble and James Nester ah all seven gabble and James Nester ah all seven people on your book I I've gotten to people on your book I I've gotten to people on your book I I've gotten to know and they've many of them have know and they've many of them have know and they've many of them have mentioned the profound impact that your mentioned the profound impact that your mentioned the profound impact that your work has had and I was before we sat work has had and I was before we sat work has had and I was before we sat down today that I was going through so down today that I was going through so down today that I was going through so many videos of people who describe how many videos of people who describe how many videos of people who describe how changed their life in a really really changed their life in a really really changed their life in a really really profound way so on behalf of all you did profound way so on behalf of all you did profound way so on behalf of all you did you do that's your work he you do the you do that's your work he you do the you do that's your work he you do the study you study people coming because

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study you study people coming because study you study people coming because next week or tomorrow I don't know when next week or tomorrow I don't know when next week or tomorrow I don't know when a a new people come in and you will a a new people come in and you will a a new people come in and you will study again M yeah that's amazing thank study again M yeah that's amazing thank study again M yeah that's amazing thank you for all that you're doing because you for all that you're doing because you for all that you're doing because you're Pro you're providing a counter you're Pro you're providing a counter you're Pro you're providing a counter narrative and a counter solution in a narrative and a counter solution in a narrative and a counter solution in a world where it feels like there's only world where it feels like there's only world where it feels like there's only one and that current solution is failing one and that current solution is failing one and that current solution is failing so many so thank you for that whim we so many so thank you for that whim we so many so thank you for that whim we have to change the narrative and we will have to change the narrative and we will have to change the narrative and we will because we want to make the people happy because we want to make the people happy because we want to make the people happy strong and healthy and independent of strong and healthy and independent of strong and healthy and independent of all what is going on we got to reset it all what is going on we got to reset it all what is going on we got to reset it all here we are here we are thank you I'm going to let you in on a little you I'm going to let you in on a little secret what is in the Diary of a COO Cup secret what is in the Diary of a COO Cup secret what is in the Diary of a COO Cup this cup that sits in front of me when I this cup that sits in front of me when I this cup that sits in front of me when I interview these people sometimes for 3 interview these people sometimes for 3 interview these people sometimes for 3 hours and sometimes three people a day hours and sometimes three people a day hours and sometimes three people a day and the answer is this perfect t I and the answer is this perfect t I and the answer is this perfect t I invested in the company on Dragon's Den invested in the company on Dragon's Den invested in the company on Dragon's Den and since then they've gone from an idea and since then they've gone from an idea and since then they've gone from an idea to the fastest growing energy drink in

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Cold as Protocol, Science as Proof

Cold does something the nervous system cannot ignore. When you enter cold water, the cortex — the thinking, planning, narrating part of the brain — does not govern the response. The brain stem does. This most ancient neural structure activates instantly, sending survival signals through the entire body. Norepinephrine surges, sharpening alertness and lifting mood; focus contracts to the present moment with a precision that no intention alone can manufacture.

We have spent generations designing our environments to eliminate exactly this kind of activation. Temperature-controlled buildings, heated transportation, seamless movement between conditions of comfort — each convenience quietly removes another demand on the body's adaptive systems. The result is a physiological baseline of ease that leaves us poorly equipped when life delivers stress we did not choose. The capacity for resilience cannot be summoned on demand if it has never been trained.

Going into the cold brings you out of this thinking brain. It brings you directly into the deepest part of the brain.

The research carries implications the medical establishment once dismissed as impossible. Wim's trained volunteers, having learned the breathing protocols and cold exposure techniques that form the method's core, were injected with an E. coli endotoxin — a bacterial compound that reliably produces immune symptoms in healthy adults. Their immune responses showed no negative reaction. The results matched Wim's own, documented years earlier when he underwent the same injection alone, and they demonstrated a capacity for voluntary immune regulation that science had assumed was beyond conscious reach.

What made that study decisive was not the numbers but the implication: that breathwork, cold exposure, and deliberate mental focus could influence the autonomic nervous system — a system long considered beyond voluntary control. When the body learns to stay regulated under real physiological pressure, the result is not just resilience; it is a felt sense of agency, a quiet confidence that whatever arrives can be met. That is the practical outcome of the method: not immunity to stress, but mastery within it.

Breathwork is the entry point before cold is ever introduced. Breath regulation teaches the body to manage emotional intensity — to feel stress arriving and respond rather than react. This is the first pillar of the method: not calm as the absence of feeling, but calm as presence under pressure. Every conscious breath is a repetition in the practice of equanimity, and equanimity is the foundation on which everything else is built.

Voluntary cold exposure also triggers the release of dopamine, the neurotransmitter central to motivation, focus, and felt reward. Unlike stimulants that flood receptors and leave diminishment behind, cold-induced dopamine elevates baseline levels over repeated sessions, producing sustained mental clarity and a deeper capacity for purposeful engagement. The body, properly trained, becomes its own most reliable instrument.

The cold deepens what the breath begins. Where breath creates the conditions for regulation, cold tests them against genuine physiological pressure — pressure the body recognizes as real and responds to with the full weight of its adaptive capacity. Together, these practices build the resilience that trauma once forced on Wim involuntarily; now, through protocol, that same resilience is available to anyone willing to choose the discomfort that builds it.

Trauma as Origin, Water as Answer

Wim Hof was born into cold and near-silence. He arrived as an undiscovered twin — his mother's pregnancy had been monitored with none of the imaging tools available today, and no one knew a second baby was present. When his twin was delivered, the team began moving toward the operating room, transporting his mother down a cold institutional hallway. He was discovered at the final moment, arriving breathless, bruised, and already shaped by a beginning the world had not anticipated.

Trauma like this does not disappear. It settles into the body's deepest tissue, into the neural structures that govern survival and the persistent hunger for relief. People shaped by early trauma become seekers — searching not always for what hurt them, but always for its opposite: something that would quiet the disruption that never fully resolved. Wim was no exception; from childhood onward, he moved through the world with the restlessness of someone who knew the destination existed but had no map for finding it.

Later, grief would compound everything. His wife died by suicide, and the depression that followed was not abstract; it was a weight that the method would eventually be studied as a counter to. In his worst period, Wim was not doing; he was barely being. What he had built through cold and breath — that reservoir of resilience — was tested against the most severe psychological stress a human can face.

But the origin of the method reaches back further than grief, to a moment at seventeen when intuition overrode thought entirely. Standing by a frozen canal in Amsterdam, Wim felt pulled toward the water — not by reason, not by knowledge, but by a body that already understood what the mind had not yet formulated. He entered the cold. And in the first contact with that water, something resolved that years of searching had not.

The feeling he described was not philosophical. It was immediate and total — the recognition of having arrived, finally, at what all the searching had been for. The cold did not offer a doctrine; it offered a direct encounter with what had been stored in the deepest layers of neural tissue — the place where trauma lives, below the reach of thought. No system, no years of searching, had touched that place. The water did, at once.

It was not words that came to me. It was a pure opening of my feeling, being uncorrupted by thinking.

That first immersion was not preceded by a protocol. It was led entirely by intuition — the body's wordless intelligence reaching for what the mind could not articulate. Wim later understood this as the body attempting to meet its earliest stored stress, to bring what was held in the brain stem into contact with something powerful enough to process it. The cold was not therapy; it was the most direct route available.

Cold exposure activates the body's ancient survival systems — the same neural structures where early stress is encoded. When you enter cold water with breath awareness, the brain stem engages fully, drawing attention away from cortical loops of memory and rumination and toward the raw present. This is the mechanism: a forced shift from thought to sensation, from past to now. The outcome is presence — and for many people, presence is precisely what trauma has made impossible.

Going to the Cold Before It Comes to You

"Go to the cold before the cold comes to you." This is not a slogan; it is a philosophy of preparation compressed into a single sentence. When you choose voluntary discomfort — when you enter cold water knowing what is coming, breathing into it rather than bracing against it — you are not punishing yourself. You are meeting difficulty on your own terms, before life presents it uninvited and finds you unready.

For several years after his first immersion, Wim lived as a squatter — outside the economic system, outside its structures and demands, in the company of free thinkers who shared his willingness to occupy the margins. He called it the best time of his life. Without the system's scaffolding, something loosened. The heavy, unexamined assumptions about how life must be lived began to fall away, replaced by clarity, play, and a quality of presence that comfort had never produced.

The system, Wim observed, sustains itself through paradigm — through inherited assumptions that, once accepted, narrow the range of thought to what the structure permits. Step outside the paradigm, even briefly, and the mind begins to think differently. Emotions emerge without the filtering layer of social obligation and performance. This is what those years of deliberate simplicity gave him: space to rediscover what he actually felt rather than what the world expected him to feel.

Cold delivers something similar, but faster. When you enter cold water, the thinking brain quiets — not because thought is suppressed, but because the body demands the entire available bandwidth for the task of being present. What remains when thought steps aside is pure aliveness: not as a concept, but as a felt experience, direct and uncorrupted. This is what the method promises, and it is the hardest promise to convey in words to someone who has not yet felt it.

What the practice delivers, in measurable terms: more energy, heightened vitality, and a connection to purpose stronger than the noise of circumstance. These are not small gains; they are the conditions under which a meaningful life becomes possible. When you wake with energy and aliveness, purpose is not something you have to manufacture. It is already present, already moving.

Wim's image for this state is the eye of the hurricane. In the eye, everything is still. The storm surrounds; the center holds. Resilience, understood this way, is not the absence of stress but the capacity to remain present within it — to stand in the center of maximum pressure without being swept into the chaos at the edges. That is the destination the method is designed to reach.

The cold is not the destination; it is the instrument. Each immersion is a repetition in staying calm when the body reports danger, a practice in choosing equanimity over reaction. Over time, the deliberate discomfort of cold exposure trains the same neural pathways that will be called upon when life delivers its unscheduled tests. You build, session by session, the architecture of a self that cannot easily be overwhelmed.

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